"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'cha

"I hope we can avoid another self-inflicted wound like we just saw over the past couple of weeks. We do not have time to play these partisan games. We have too much work to do. Over the next several months, I hope congress is focused on what the American people are focused on," President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday nig

Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Lou Dobbs about the deficit deal reached by Congress which includes the formation of a super committee to cut government spending. Paul said “I keep looking and I can’t find any place in the Constitution where we have the authority to create such a creature as the super Co

BASHIR: What is the effect giving people their way all of the time? How does it shape our thinking behavior if by being adamant and dogmatic we get our way? PEELE: Well, the way I think about it is they are pursuing goals that can't be achieved. It's sort of like a child who has some kind of fantasy, and they keep asking you to give them

Chris Matthews: "It was like the secessionists, the way you said that, the way you phrased because of your history sense, was almost, like, even as he was being inaugurated, the voices of secession were uniting in the south and planning to bring this guy down. Right? And divide."

President Obama will be embarking on a three-day bus tour later this month to tout job creation. The tour will take place from August 15 to the 17th (a Monday to Wednesday). "[Obama] looks forward to talking to the folks about growing the economy, creating jobs," Jay Carney said at his daily White House press briefing. Carney got testy with t

Chuck Todd, NBC News: "This economy has to contract for a little bit before it can expand again. We only talk about the tech bubble or the real estate bubble. It was bubbled up everywhere. Whether it was people making too much money on Wall Street because salaries got out of whack and then that messed things up. It is just the whole country needs t

"Vice President Biden, I'm not a terrorist. Terrorists target and kill innocent people. I'm a freshman Congressman who was sent to Washington in January to stop President Obama from bankrupting future generations and destroying job creation," Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said in a web video. Walsh also had a message for President Obama. "President Obam

“I think, frankly, he’s in over his head as to what to do about this economy,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) told the Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Peggy Noonan and editor James Freeman.

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White House press secretary Jay Carney is asked what the administration thought the market reaction would be to the debt-ceiling compromise passed by both Houses and signed into law yesterday by President Obama: Question: "But it's [the market has] been down for eight days now. What message does the administration take on this? A lot of the mark

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL): "Patriotic, country-loving Americans can disagree on their future vision of what kind of country we should be. But this division, this difference of opinion, is the reason why even though this bill passed, this debate we just had is going to move forward for some time to come." Full transcript below: Sen. Mar

ANTHONY TERRELL, NBC NEWS: "You said you’d be rather saddened if you didn’t finish in the top three at Ames. What do you expect, what’s a good finish for you this time?" REP. RON PAUL, GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: "Well, in the top three. That’s what I would hope to do and I expect to do it, but, we don’t know exactly. Nobody knows. Thi

In this new Web video, Mitt Romney's campaign slams President Obama, highlighting Chicago's economic struggles as the president returns home for a birthday celebration and fundraiser.

Bill O'Reilly discusses recent attacks on the Tea Party.

CNBC's Simon Hobbs and The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson debate whether the debt compromise is really seen as a bad deal by Wall Street.

Charles Krauthammer: "An index of how spent he is sort of intellectually on the issue of jobs is the campaign speech he gave today, the fourth in 10 days, in which he pivoted, he did his pivot, and he announced five initiatives. Listen to them. Payroll tax extension: We already have that. Unemployment insurance extension: Already have that. Trad

Robert Reich: "The bad news is the president has essentially tied his hands and the hands of Congress with regard to boosting the economy. Right now, I don't have to tell you, joblessness is huge, the economy is not growing. Friday we'll find out how many jobs were created in July, but don't hold your breath. It probably is not very many. We nee