Claire McCaskill: “I think Senator McCain helped take the airplane exemption out after a tragedy air crash.”

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.

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.

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.