"There are a lot of ways that we can win, but I just like North Carolina, so I want to win North Carolina really badly," President Obama said in an interview with WRAL-TV. "Obviously, if we win North Carolina, I think we're in good shape for a second term." "We're going to fight for every vote down there. I think we've got a good story to tell a

"I think this is a declaration by Obama, the fact that he's now pivoted back to this old issue that he's been touting for at least four years," Charles Krauthammer said on FOX News tonight. "It's a declaration that he’s surrendered on the state of the economy and on the issue of his stewardship of it. This is a white flag. There's no way he can d

"You know, I think what's important if you're running for president is that the American people know who you are, what you've done and that you're an open book. And, you know, that's been true of every presidential candidate dating back to Mr. Romney's father," President Obama said when asked if he thinks it is unpatriotic to have a Swiss bank acco

MSNBC's Toure (one word) shares his thoughts on Mitt Romney’s upcoming address to the NAACP’s National Convention on Wednesday.

“They are using what you might call the ‘Braveheart’ strategy,” Brit Hume said. “You remember the famous battle scene, and Mel Gibson saying, ‘Hold, hold, hold.’ Well, they are holding. You might call it the rope-a-dope strategy, like Muhammad Ali and the famous prize fight with George Foreman, where he laid back and let Foreman punch

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now, my whole point in the last hour -- I want to sum this up for Mitt Romney -- and I hate to say this. It pains me to say this. I can't tell you how sad it makes me, but I don't care. Reality is reality, and the economy and its condition is not an automatic win-win for Romney or the Republicans right now. It just isn't. Snerdl

"We’re just not going to be a part of, again, socializing health care in the state of Texas and going in direct conflict with what our founding fathers’ wishes and freedom for that matter. People need to be free to make those decisions about their health care, not be forced by this administration into these exchanges or into bankrupting states

"Let's not hold the vast majority of Americans and our economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy," said Obama, flanked by a dozen people the White House said would benefit from the middle class-oriented tax cut extension. "We don't need more top-down economics," Obama said. "We tried that theory. We've seen w

"At the end of the day, I think the president's going to understand he's in a really bad economic position. He will cave and we will not see the tax increases that he hopes for," Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) said on CNN's "Starting Point" today.

JOHN ROBERTS, FOX NEWS: Mitt Romney came out strong on the job numbers on Friday. Is that an issue he can win on? REINCE PRIEBUS, RNC CHAIRMAN: Well, not only is it an issue that he can win on. But it's an issue that we have to win on. Look, the 80,000 job number that they are talking about. Do you that that includes 30 percent of those jobs are

"I would veto it and here’s why. What I’m proposing is that we give a tax break, that we make sure that taxes don’t go up on 98 percent of Americans. 98 percent. But to extend tax breaks for that top 2 percent of wealthiest Americans would cost us a trillion dollars over the next decade," President Obama said in an interview with WWL-TV in Ne

On the Monday broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs used a familiar metaphor about a "car in the ditch" that President Obama was known for using

NORAH O’DONNELL: On that very point that it’s been the president’s position all along, in Dec. 2010, when he advocated an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts including those for the wealthiest Americans, he argued that raising taxes would be a “blow to our economy.” So what’s different now from then? CARNEY: The president’s posit

Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell (D) said the president's announcement to extend for one year the Bush-era tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 is "good politics" and an issue of "fairness."