Mike Huckabee: "But if being a candidate is like a practice scrimmage, governing is like the championship game where everyone is trying to win and no one wants to lose. No one holds one of those office because he was humble and selfless. There is a room full of ego and the air is filled with those who need to validate what they said in the campaign

“I rise here on the Senate floor today to speak on the tremendous issue that's captivated, and rightfully so, the attention of our country. “Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don’t think it’s constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Sen

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL): "In battle, when you accidentally shoot your own, it's called friendly fire. When you deliberately shoot your own it's called fragging. Republicans, stop fragging the American economy and the American people!"

In a speech on the House floor earlier, Minority Leader Pelosi accused Speaker Boehner of going to the "Dark Side." This, of course, is a reference to Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" franchise. "The Speaker chose when he didn't have the votes instead of to reach out in a bipartisan way to see how we could work together, he chose to go to the Dark

"We have all worked together for most of the year to try to avoid this. Senator Reid, Senator McConnell, and I have -- had a solid agreement last Sunday. Derailed that agreement. It's time for the President to tell us what he's for. It is time for the President to outline how we get out of this cul-du-sac he's driven us into," Speaker John Boehner

President Obama delivers his weekly address on the debt ceiling fight.He says House Republicans "spent precious days" passing a bill that can't pass the Senate and "would hold our economy captive to Washington politics once again.""Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan," he argues.The president concludes by saying

“The president said—really—this is what the president said a week ago: ‘The only bottom line that I have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election, until 2013.’ The president thinks this is about him. It's all about him. This is about America, and what's good for this country. It's not about the president. It's not abo

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Good morning. I am Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona. By now, most Americans know that lawmakers in Washington are engaged in a difficult debate about the nation’s ‘debt ceiling,’ the legal limit to the amount of money the federal government can borrow. The debt ceiling is currently set at a little more than 14 trillion dollars