Claire McCaskill: “It seems like, to me, this might be a good fit for the National Guard...”

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.

This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.