On his Sunday morning program Chris Matthews grouped Mitt Romney in with those who don't "deserve" their wealth because "his old man looked out for him" and "he had connections." Matthews said "people like Steve Jobs, [Steven] Spielberg, and [Lee] Iacocca" and others like them "deserved their wealth" because "they went out and swung that pick a

Stephen Colbert is a better comedian -- and he's an excellent one -- than he is a constitutional scholar. And in fact the Supreme Court has held over and over again that money is indispensable for the dissemination of speech, campaign reformers constantly argue that, a, there's too much political speech in this country, b, they know the right amoun

MR. GREGORY: Well, almost a year ago, I talked to you. You thought the tea party would die out as the economy got better. You, you weren't right about that. SEN. REID: Well, I think the tea party's dying out as the economy's getting better slowly. MR. GREGORY: You do think that? SEN. REID: Oh, sure, no question about it. And, and, and you-

"Saving an industry, as the president did, is different than strip mining companies in order to – in order to profit off of them, which is, in many cases, what Mr. Romney did," David Axelrod told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. "The question is, is that the philosophy that you want in the White House?"

Newt Gingrich explained how he plans to weed out bad employees in the federal government at an undecided voters event hosted by Mike Huckabee on FOX News Saturday night. Gingrich said one of the ways to modernize the government a deliver services in a hugely sufficient way is to "get rid of those folks that are, in fact wasteful, or those folks

"First of all, I understand the frustration of the American people. I feel the same way. But understand that we've had obstructionism on steroids. The Republican leader, my counterpart, Mitch McConnell, said his number one goal at the beginning of this Congress was to defeat President Obama, not have him re-elected, and that's how they've legislate

George Will, Cokie Roberts, Jon Karl, Peggy Noonan and Paul Krugman.

"What's really disturbing to me is the over-the-top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military," Rick Perry said about Obama's handling of the urinating incident.

SCHIEFFER: So what you're saying is that he would be the weakest candidate? GINGRICH: Well, I think it's very hard for him. I don't want to pick weakest or strongest. I think it's very hard for him to differentiate "Romney-care" from "Obama-care." It's very hard for him to differentiate appointing liberal judges, which he did when he was the gov

Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, Bill Kristol, and Juan Williams discuss the state of play in the upcoming South Carolina primary.

The comedian on his (faux) presidential bid and his critique of super PACs.

"I'd feel fine about any of our candidates," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) told CBS' Bob Schieffer. "Frankly, I think you're going to see Republicans and Independents unite behind whoever our nominee is because the further we get into this administration the more worried Americans are getting. "I think Republicans are going to be very united," he added