CNBC Host: "You have a very radical strategy for a smaller government. You don't like Social Security or Medicare very much. You're not totally in favor of public schools, say some. Given the backlash there was with Paul Ryan's attempt to cut Medicare and Social Security, do you think that there's mileage in that with the American people still when

"It isn't about reducing the deficit, it is about destroying the public space. It is about destroying government -- federal involvement in education. It's about lean air, clean water, food safety, public safety. You name it, they're there to diminish it. Destroy it," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the liberal ThinkProgress organization.

"You know I'm pretty pro-Obama in many ways. I sort of like the spirit of his administration. I like the whole direction its taken in terms of responsibility and what it stands for in our country's history. But I have to wonder about the jobs program. Right now let's talk jobs.," MSNBC host Chris Matthews said on his show "Hardball" today.

Carol E. Lee of the Wall Street Journal asks White House press secretary Jay Carney about creating jobs and the point of the President's upcoming bus tour in the Midwest. The White House denies this is a campaign event,

ABC News' White House correspondent Jake Tapper prods press secretary Jay Carney for President Obama's plan to foster an environment where jobs can be created. Carney blames the difficulty to create jobs on environmental disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan earlier this year.

(MarketWatch) -- Markets "go up and down," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 500 points. He said the Obama administration is monitoring the situation in Euro

Rick Perry: "I can promise you when Bobby Jindal over on my eastern flank comes up with a new way to deliver health care because he is just a brilliant guy when it comes to policy issues dealing with health and human services, we'll go over there and snitch that in a minute and implement it in our state. Or if Brian Sandoval over in Nevada comes

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Connell McShane about the agreement in Washington D.C. to raise the debt ceiling and whether the formation of a super committee to cut spending will get the United States economy back on track. Carper said “instead of coming up with a solution, which I think the Bowles Simpson pl

President Obama gave free advertisement to AARP and defended entitlement programs while making a joke about his all within one sentence. After the comment, a nostalgic tells the audience that they remind him of the crowd that gathered in Hyde Park, Chicago after it was declared then-Senator Obama won. PRESIDENT OBAMA: "It is true that I turn 50

"Now, they've been around for a while, but they are spreading far and wide and more people are getting involved. We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it isn't finished yet, but we need to have an American spring. A kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change where people from the grassroot

"We are poised for progress. Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again," President Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union address.

"I think he has to give up on the worrying about looking like the 'angry black man.' Because maybe that's what's been holding him back the whole time. I understand the concern there, and I understand that we live in a country that has still a lot of racism, especially racism among people who don't even know that they're being racist and what they'r

Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" newsreader and co-host what seeemedlik Story via The Blaze, which notes: Nowhere in her reckless rant does Mika mention anything about the fact that rising sales at luxury retail outlets

Donald Trump talks with FOX News' Greta Van Susteren about the debt ceiling and why he thinks President Obama is not a leader and bad for the economy. "We can't get at our own energy!" a frustrated Trump. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: One of the things that people talk about is that a lot of business people are uncertain what to do with th

Lawrence O'Donnell asks Politico's Vogel if Sarah Palin actually wants a Republican to beat Barack Obama in 2012.

Charles Krauthammer tells Special Report that Democrats are now forced to defend Obama on "two grounds: jobs is about stewardship and deficit is about ideology."

Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo argues that America's power is in its economic prosperity, "which is in decline."

Arianna Huffington: "As we can see, running the reelection campaign is clearly the highest priority because he’s already had 37 fundraisers this year. And it’s been a pretty tense year."