"You can not cut yourself to balance," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on cutting spending to balance to budget. "It's not balanced unless you have revenue on the table." Who is to blame for our debt crisis? "The U.S. government can not default on its debt, largely accrued by President George W. Bush," Pelosi said. Pelosi was intervi

Ann Coulter says Chris Christie would definitely beat Obama.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) tells FOX News why President Obama can't come to the debt meetings between Democrats and Republicans: "The president has much more to do with his time, and that’s why you have a Vice President."

"I think part of it is just that the route I'm taking is a hard route. It's a route that says we're going to talk about very big ideas. We're going to use the internet, we have a site called newt.org," candidate for the Republican nomination Newt Gingrich told FOX News' Bill O'Reilly. Gingrich is a former FOX News contributor.

"I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country," President Obama said to wild applause at a gay-sponsored fundraiser in New York City. "We're going to keep on fighting until the law no longer treats committed partners who've been together for decades like they're strangers," Obama also said. "I

President Obama earlier today in Fort Drum, NY: "Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a President, I’ve always run into you guys. And for some reason it’s always in some rough spots. First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went

"I understand there's a little debate going on here in New York," Obama said at a fundraiser on Thursday evening. Obama praised the leadership of Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) and New York Senate Democrats and Republicans, however declined to give his position on the debate. Rather, Obama went on to talk about democracy.

"The reality here is that, until our Republican colleagues are more concerned about the need to reduce the deficit than they're worried about what Grover Norquist will say," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD said earlier today as debt talks broke down.

Code Pink and Global Exchange leader Madea Benjamin speaks at the press conference of the U.S. Boat to Gaza. (via Right Scoop.

"I think there's so much more work to do. We've really just begun to lay the foundation," First Lady Michelle Obama told ABC News' David Muir.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) tells ABC News this is "our chance" to pass a balanced budget amanedment tied to the debt ceiling increase.

"It's worth asking: Where in the world has President Obama been for the last month? Where is he? What does he propose? What is he willing to do to reduce the debt? And to avoid this crisis, that's building on his watch?" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said today. "He's the one in charge. I think most Americans think it's about tim

Four points Karl Rove makes: (1) Weak economy (2) unhappy voter groups (3) unpopular policies (4) bad decisions

House Budget Committee: CBO Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed today at the House Budget Committee, the President's "framework" fails to meet the threshold of credibility that is required of serious federal budget plans. Until the President is willing to put forward a serious plan to avert a debt crisis -- a plan with real, credible numbers -- the n

President Obama: Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding.  Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm’s way.  We’ve ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country.  And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light

"When it comes to our military aid, we are not prepared to continue providing that at the pace we were providing it unless and until we see some steps taken," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Senate panel today.

MSNBC's Ed Schultz says that he's "not sold" on President Obama's plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan."10,000 troops and another 23 [thousand] by next summer in my opinion's not enough. This isn't going to satisfy the liberal base."

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell gets reaction to the president's speech from Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank.

Bill O'Reilly on the war in Afghanistan: "Unfortunately, the war has now become political. President Obama knows he must get on the right side of the folks, and that is shading his Afghan policy. That's why he's withdrawing more troops quicker than the commander in the field, General David Petraeus, wants. And that is not good."

Time Magazine managing editor Richard Stengel writes: The Constitution serves the nation; the nation does not serve the Constitution. That's what the framers would say. (via Daily Caller)

Charles Krauthammer on the new numbers released by the Congressional Budget Office: "I think the CBO numbers ought to make people alarmed. And they ought to alarm the Democrats, who are the ones who are holding out on real changes in entitlement reform at the Biden level, at the Biden commission, which is where the money is."