Claire McCaskill: “Well listen, I have learned a lot today. I think that I have got a good list of to-dos to go back to Washington with.”

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.

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.