Tavis Smiley says the President is ignoring blacks, the "most loyal" part of his base who "ought to be looked out for." Smiley spoke to NBC's Lester Holt. In April, Smiley said the 2012 elections will be "the most racist in the h

Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana) says there is a fundamental choice between "principled fiscal conservative" Rick Perry and "European-style socialist" Barack Obama. "Look, clearly the President is in over his head. This is what you get when you elect a president whose never run anything before until he got to be president. We can't afford on the

"I’m not taking a position, but I would be very pleased to see him win the Republican nomination," former President Jimmy Carter said about Mitt Romney.

Rush Limbaugh responds to President Obama telling supporters "if you love me, you've got to help me pass this bill." "Hey, Mr. President, if you love us, you've got to lower our taxes. Mr. President, if you love us you've got

"You keep playing the same hand over and over again and it's not working," James Carville says about Obama's solution to fixing the economy. On Thursday, Carville advised President Obama to fire some of his staff and bring new people in. "It j

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) tells PBS' "Newshour" that President Obama's jobs plan will not pass as it is now because of Republican and Democratic opposition. Transcript: JEFFREY BROWN, PBS: "Well, Sen. Cardin, we keep circling around these areas where there might be some agreement. "Even as Rep. Boehner was speaking today, a number of Democrats w

Chris Matthews says Republicans celebrate ignorance.

"If we end up with two or three more economic shocks, for example if Greece goes bankrupt or the Euro starts decaying, or if the Middle East begins to get much more difficult and you start having real problems with the price of oil, I think it would not take much for some very senior Democrats to say, you know, we are prepared to mount a campaign a

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) believes president doesn't understand free market enterprise and explains why he can't support jobs plan "The president's policies and the regulations are keeping businesses from expanding and investing," DeMint told "On the Record."

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says he feels that the President is open to reforming the tax code for corporations but not for the American individual or small businesses because that would hurt his class warfare agenda. "Well, it's not going to be for a lack of our trying. So I really think we have a shot at this. Where I think it's less likely is on

In the book, author Joe McGinniss intimates that Palin’s marriage may not be on solid ground, depicts her as using her children as props for her political and reality television career, writes of a salacious encounter with a former professional basketball star, and claims that she and her husband have snorted cocaine. McGinniss was the man wh

Reporter: "It seems like a lot of Democrats, not a lot, but plenty of Democrats either differ with the president on the policy of the jobs act or actively sort of attacking the bill in the press. Why do you think that is? How could a bill pass if you have Democratic members of Congress vocally against it?" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: "We

Donny Deutsch discusses Rick Perry's appeal to Republican voters on "Hardball.""Let's look at the last two Republicans that were what I'll call in a soulful way connected with the party: Ronald Reagan and George W. [Bush] before he fell off a cliff. And both those guys had that quality of, just this kind of arrogance -- 'I'm right, you're

Harry Reid: "Well, for most Americans, [bike paths] are absolutely important. It's good for purposes of allowing people to travel, um, without burning all the fossil fuel on the highways. I got up this morning really early, and went out and did my exercise. I'm not exaggerating--scores!--at least 30 or 40 bikes--so scores may be a slight exaggerati

President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyers, 23, from Greensburg, Ky., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Meyers was in Afghanistan's Kunar province in Sept. 2009 when he repeatedly ran through enemy fire to recover the bodies of fellow Americ

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus discusses Republican chances to capture the White House in 2012.

Bill O'Reilly: "If you are a working person in New York or California or New Jersey or Massachusetts or most other states, your take-home pay is being gutted by the rampant taxation. That's what's strangling the U.S. economy."

White House press secretary Jay Carney told CBS' Mark Knoller that President Obama's visit to a bridge in House Speaker Boehner's district is not a coincidence. Obama will visit the bridge later this month to push his jobs plan. The Brent Spent Bridge, which is listed as needing repairs, connects Boehner's district in Ohio to Kentucky.

Lawrence O'Donnell discusses the results of the special election in New York's 9th District: "If you think Democrats lost the seat because its previous Democratic occupant had to leave under a heavy cloud of embarrassment, if not scandal, you must think again. Scandal is not enough for Democrats to lose a New York City congressional seat. There

"The last six weeks or so I've traveled through my district and across the country, listening to people outside of Washington who are the key to making America work. My message today on their behalf is this: This isn't that hard! What we need to do is liberate the economy from the shackles of Washington. Let our economy grow. I think we need to

Rachel Maddow discusses a Pennsylvania GOP proposal to allocate Pennsylvania's electoral votes according to results in each congressional district. She attacks Republican voting law proposals in other states as well.

Charles Krauthammer discusses the special election results in New York's 9th District: "If the Democrats are lacking 'Mediscare', in 9 percent unemployment, 1 percent economic expansion and a huge amount of debt, they have nothing."

Elizabeth Warren, former Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, talks with Rachel Maddow about her newly announced candidacy for senator from Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren says she is "not giving up" on implementing her pet project, the Consumer Financial Pr