DECORAH, Iowa/FOX News – President Obama got into a heated back and forth with a Tea Party activist who demanded to know at the end of a town hall meeting here whether or not Vice President Biden had called members of the Tea Pa

Chris Matthews: "Do you think the nation's newspapers, the big news organizations are now going to send every nickel they have sending young people out there to investigate this guy?" Eugene Robinson: "Absolutely." Matthews: "I think there will be a tremendous amount of investigation of this guy. He better be clean as a whistle. The times com

"Markets kind of back to usual. No surprise...business as usual. Unusual. Considering the fact we darn near melted down these last two weeks...I think very unusual. It's almost as if the world markets never gyrated at all. It's like we're in some weird "Twilight Zone" episode, where folks merrily go on with their lives, and our leade

"Lincoln ... they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart," President Obama said at a town hall event in Iowa on Monday evening.

Fmr. President Bill Clinton refers to Rick Perry as a "good-looking rascal" and says widespread denunciation of the federal government is "crazy" and leads to policies that will hurt the economy.

At an evening town hall event in Iowa, President Obama made news by announcing he will unveil a "specific plan to boost the economy" in September.

Rick Perry on how he is different from former President Bush, a fellow Texan: "You know, they’re not all carbon copies in Texas. I tell people – I say one of the quick you can tell the difference is that he’s a Yale graduate; I’m a Texas A&M graduate. But the fact is it doesn’t matter where you’re from. The next president of the United

Rep. James Clyburn (D_SC) explains why he is using his position in the newly-formed "Super Committee" to cut government spending to push for closing the wealth gap in the U.S.

RNC: Help get the truth out to the American people about Obama's disastrous record of epic policy and leadership failure. It's time to stand up for Main Street U.S.A. and bring a halt to the "Debt-End" Express.

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, under President Clinton: "Government has got to buy. It is the buyer of last resort. We've got to have more government spending now, maybe more deficits as a result because that is necessary right now. And this is not marginal, left-wing, progressive thinking. This is mainstream economics."

"… the costs have been going up and up and up. So part of the Affordable Care Act, health care reform, also known as Obamacare. By the way, let me tell you, I have no problem with folks saying 'Obama cares.' I do care," President Obama said at a town hall event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

President Obama stopped in southern Minnesota this afternoon to hold a town hall. ”There is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed. What's broken is our politics," Obama said in Cannon Falls, MN.

"I think she is a ball of fire for one thing. I’ve never met her before. We didn’t get the chance to shake hands, she came in after we’d been there for about an hour and a half. Anyway, we’ll meet and we’ll have a good chance to shake and howdy and I’ll get to know her even better," Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) told FOX News.

Mitt Romney campaign: During his Magical Misery bus tour this week, it is unlikely President Obama will speak with unemployed Americans, to near-bankrupt business owners, or to families struggling to survive in this economy. He is more interested in campaigning in swing states than working to solve the economic crisis that is crushing the middle cl

Rick Perry talks about his childhood and how he met his wife. "Sometimes it kind of takes me a while to get into something, like this presidential race. Let me tell you, when I'm in, I'm in all the way!" Rick Perry told the Black Hawk Country Republican club last night in Waterloo, Iowa.