"Well, it's an amazing result, but it's not complicated," Charles Krauthammer said about Newt Gingrich's win in South Carolina. "Some of these results are very complicated, lots of factors. Here I think it is very simple. What happened was a double-digit lead by Romney collapsed within essentially a week. The late deciders, who were two-thirds of t

Schmidt: "Not only are we not moving toward a coalescing of support with the establishment of Newt Gingrich, we're probably moving toward a declaration of war on Newt Gingrich by the Republican establishment. And if Newt Gingrich is able to win the Florida primary, you will see a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond m

James Carville on CNN: "He might have been a great CEO, I'm saying he has been a lousy candidate so far. He doesn't do well on his feet."

“This election is a battle for the soul of America,” Romney said. “It’s a choice between two different destinies for America. President Obama wants to fundamentally transform our country. We want to restore to America the founding principles that made this country great and the hope of the Earth!”

Newt Gingrich: “Thank you to everyone in South Carolina who decided to be with us in changing Washington.”

"The message of liberty is being received by more people every single day thanks for your efforts," Ron Paul said tonight in South Carolina. "There’s no doubt our numbers have been growing. We will be going to the caucus states and we will be promoting the whole idea of getting more delegates, because that’s the name of the game and we will

"The voters in South Carolina basically said to us that what they mean by electability is the ability to take on Barack Obama in a debate. There is no doubt this past week who was the strongest debater. You saw this when Gingrich took on a question from my colleague Juan. And mostly on the issue, not directly Juan, hit the thing out of the park, go

"It's the birthday of Citizens United and of Newt Gingrich being censored [sic]. I think, though, we cannot take out of the analysis, the polarizing tone that Newt Gingrich used in South Carolina. And I think what is going to be something to watch, he outright race-baited and I'm not bringing up race, he did. Talking about blacks by name, Tea Party

"What’s fundamentally at stake in our country is freedom. The government taking and robbing every man, woman and child, every institution that seeks to do good in our society — they continue to rob it of their freedom and try to control everything from the top down," Rick Santorum said at his speech in South Carolina.

"Gingrich wiped the floor with Romney in South Carolina. I think that's the thing. This 14-point victory, this is big enough that it shakes up everything in this race. The question is how does the establishment react?," NBC's Chuck Todd said.

Ed Rollins says the establishment will come down on Gingrich and call him unelectable. "You will see a Republican establishment will say he cannot win and drag down the house and they will go to war on him," Rollins told FOX News. Rollins on Romney: "He never was a conservative til he was running for the presidency four years ago. He never gover

NBC's Andrea Mitchell: "I think what you're seeing is shock, shock among the Republican establishment because they thought that Mitt Romney on paper was the front-runner, was someone who could nail it, who could be the most electable. "The biggest change that happened tonight was that Gingrich has co-opted the electability issue with his debate

Lawrence O'Donnell: It's impossible for Newt Gingrich to win a national election. Negatives like his cannot be turned around.

CNBC/NYT's John Harwood says the Romney campaign has told him they will use Newt Gingrich's ethics violations as a Congressman against him in Florida. Harwood also says Gingrich's SuperPAC is expecting more money from Sheldon Adelson.

"I think we've been able to, throughout the early primary process, you know, put him back on his heels because he's out of touch with middle class and working families. He continues, Tamron, to refuse to come clean about his own financial record. Why won't he release his tax returns?," DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC this afternoon.

On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher shared his view of the "tea people" and why he believes they like Newt Gingrich. "They may not see a Republican, but watching these last couple of debates -- all of them, but especially recently, the 'tea party,' who really kind of wag the dog, there in the Republican Party, they finally

Chuck Todd, NBC News: It's become a liability because he's made it a liability. And that's what's so bizarre about this. His answers have changed. I first asked him the tax return question 28 days ago, the first time he was asked, and he said, no, he probably wouldn't do it. He's changed his answer every time he's been asked, whether by one of us,

Bill Moyers on "Real Time" with host Bill Maher: "If you had told me, Bill, that in the 21st Century someone, a grown man, would've been playing the race card as it has been played in South Carolina by the former Speaker, I would have been very glad that I saved my Confederate money. Because if he is elected in November, I have enough to get access

BASHIR: Let me play something that you said about the current GOP debate on the floor of the house on Wednesday. Just listen. I think what you said and what I was hoping to run is we find candidates like Newt Gingrich who simply want to throw fuel and matches on fire to develop sort of an explosiveness in this country that is unnecessary. To sugges

House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) delivers the Weekly Republican Address on the president's upcoming State of the Union. "The State of the Union is a time for truth-telling," he says. "And the sad truth is that the president's policies are making our economy worse."

Howard Fineman, Huffington Post: "As I said, what the voters here want is somebody who wants to attack. I mean, I keep mentioning the fact that they used to have cockfighting here in South Carolina. They've transferred it from the chickens to the people. That's what they like. This is not Iowa. It's not even New Hampshire."

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"There's an enormous double standard because the elite media in particular, led by the New York Times, is just unendedly left-wing. I've recently been talking about food stamps. I end up on a show the other morning where the questioner said 'isn't it racist to use the term food stamps in South Carolina?' And I stopped, and I said I started talking