Claire McCaskill actually said...

"We'll continue to work closely with you to figure out ways we can continue to be the best military in the world with less money spent."

"I just realized there was one other area I wanted to cover. That was the zero-based review of the Department's intelligence organizations."

"the more quickly you adapt to some of these strategies, the less painful the next decade is going to be for DOD and for our military."

"I thought it took a lot of courage for Secretary Gates to go out as far as he did on the second engine."