President Obama delivers an address to the nation on the war in Afghanistan, announcing that 10,000 troops will return home by the end of the year, and that the remainder of the 33,000 troops that were part of the 2009 "surge" will return by the end of the summer of 2012.

Charles Krauthammer: "I think the rollout today, the speech, was simply remarkably unremarkable. There was not much in it. I found it fairly shallow, it was a stringing together of cliches. There wasn't a memorable line or an idea. Now, he invoked Reagan of course. The venue was a way to invoke Reagan because that's where he unv

Sean Hannity: One of the things that I'm sure is going to come up in the campaign is that you worked for President Obama, and you actually had written him a letter, and you said he is a "remarkable leader." But yet you're going to run against somebody that you called a remarkable leader. What did you mean by that when you said i

Chris Matthews praises Jon Huntsman for saying that the 2012 election will be about who will be a better president, not who is the "better American."

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio): "If the president listens to the commanders on the ground and our diplomats in the region and makes a decision, I'll be there to support him.""We're getting there, but we've got an awful lot invested here, and I'm concerned about any precipitous withdrawal of our troops that would jeopardize the succes

Bill O'Reilly: "Mr. President, stick with Gen. Petraeus, even if you have to take a political hit."

On Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) spoke on Capitol Hill and urged the president to speed up a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) then took the opportunity to criticize Manchin. Manchin along with U.S. Army veteran Wes Moore join "Morning Joe" to discuss.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.): "Either they don't care about jobs or they care more about politics and want to bring the Democrats down by saying, 'Well, they can't get a bill through the Senate floor.'"

Tim Pawlenty touts his record as governor of Minnesota in his first TV ad in Iowa."If I can do it in Minnesota, we can do it in Washington," he says.