Claire McCaskill: “In this Committee we depend on people coming forward and telling us about problems, and so we want to make sure that…”

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.

I have won when the polls said I couldn't and I have lost when the polls said I would win, so I am not a big believer in all of the horse race stuff.

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.

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