"Obama is wonderfully skilled at evoking what America is all about. I think he's great at it. He thrills me when he does it. In fact, that's one of the reasons I was inspired by him," MSNBC's Chris Matthews said. In a recent radio interview with Larry Elder, Matthews

CNBC: Grover Norquist, American for Tax Reform, and Robert Reich, UC Berkeley, discuss what's stalling the Super Committee from coming to an agreement over spending cuts.

Meghan McCain talks about her "feud" with Newt Gingrich on Friday night's edition of "The Tonight Show" with host Jay Leno: "I said that he was running for president purely for vanity purposes — to sell books, to sell DVDs, which I still believe. Someone told him that, and he was like ‘What would she know?’ and his implication was, like, ‘d

YouTube: Using Social Security as his prime example, Professor Friedman explodes the myth that the major expansions in government resulted from popular demand. In a speech delivered more than 30 years ago, he directly relates this dynamic to today's health care debate. "Someone once wrote, and I'm not sure who it was, that a myth is like an air

Today, I'm speaking to you from Indonesia as I finish up my trip to the Asia Pacific -- the region where we do most of our trade and sell most of our exports. And over the past week, the progress we've made in opening markets and boosting exports here will help create more jobs and more growth in the United States. Here in Indonesia, I w

Hi, I'm Senator Pat Toomey from the great state of Pennsylvania, and I'm pleased to have this opportunity to share a few thoughts with you today. Like so many Americans, I'm deeply concerned about the two biggest problems facing our country today: First, the economy has hit a wall with unemployment sitting stubbornly at 9 percent.

Bill O'Reilly gives his advice to the supercommitee.

In his latest campaign ad, Texas Gov. Rick Perry calls himself an "outsider.""I want to force Congress to balance the budget, and if they don't, I say we cut their pay in half, send them home. Replacing one Washington insider with another won't change a thing. If you want an outsider who will overhaul Washington, then I'm your guy."