Claire McCaskill: “It's the taxpayers that get left holding the bag, because we are insuring 90 percent plus of these loans”

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.

The culture wars? I've got to tell you, this time around, bring it, because I think that Democrats want to talk about abortion, and they want to talk about guns.

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.