BEN STEIN, ECONOMIST: I mean the situation is just hopeless. I mean poor Mr. Lew, who was just nominated to be secretary of the Treasury. It's a very prestigious post. I've been in that room in the Treasury Department many times. It's a magnificent office. It has its own fireplace. But he might as well burn himself up in it. I mean there's nothing

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think we're going to end up exactly where we started. We're probably going to try an assault weapons ban and it will be a little bit tighter, but it didn't work. The numbers on it -- it lasted for ten years, in the mid-nineties, and the statistics on it [showed] it had no affect. And the reason is simple, if we had an honest

PIERS MORGAN TO LARRY PRATT: "This is complete nonsense, Mr. Pratt. What you're doing is deliberately lying, deliberately twisting it, so that Americans watching this who may be tempted to buy in to your ludicrous fear game, rush out tomorrow and buy more weapons, and more ammunition. Because you know what? More guns, less gun crime, less gun murde

Dennis Miller on former Vice President Al Gore selling his television channel Current to Al Jazeera, welfare abuse and how unpopular Congress is. DENNIS MILLER: You shouldn't get too deep with Al Gore, he's a bad guy. Ethically speaking, he makes John Edwards look like Sir Thomas Moore, at least Edwards was just a horndog. This guy i

In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, former President Bill Clinton outlined the importance mobile technology but also talked about political issues like gun control calling the availability of high-capacity gun magazines "nuts." FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I grew up in the hunting culture, but this is nuts. W

Vice President Joe Biden, while addressing representatives of gun safety and gun violence victims' groups, says President Obama could use "executive orders" to enact gun control measures. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: "The president is going to act. There are executives orders -- executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is ye

“You know, anybody who tries to plan four years from now, George, you know, is crazy," Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said on today's broadcast of "Good Morning America" On ABC. The fact of the matter is I’m going to follow the advice my mother gave me, which is to do the job that you have right now as well as you can do it and the future will take

Gov. Chris Christie appeared Wednesday on "CBS This Morning," to speak about gun violence, among other issues. He said, "if all we talk about is just controlling guns, which we should talk about, then we're not doing enough." He also spoke to the need to "talk about substance abuse" and examine the "violence in these video games," saying, "I don

JOE SCARBOROUGH: I've been getting some criticism by extremists on the right, who are saying that we've got to look at the magazines -- high capacity magazines -- we've got to look at the assault weapons, and we've got to ban some of these things, but I will tell you: I've found most of my conservative friends and supporters agree. These people, t

SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-MD): "My concern is on his position in regards to Iran. He has not been supportive of action taken by the United States to impose sanctions, he believes that we should move only with the international community. I think it's important for the United States to lead in the effort to isolate Iran. So, I have concern as to how he wou

Norah O'Donnell: This morning I asked Christie if he thinks the Tea Party has too much clout in the GOP. Gov. Christie: No, I don't. I think they've had influence. I think everybody who comes to the table in the Republican Party should have a voice. Everybody should have a voice. And I don't think they've had too much influence-- O'Donnell:

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart gets serious and addresses gun violence on his show while ripping gun rights activists for paranoia. Stewart also notes the lack of a national conversation on the subject and how the attention on gun control often gets diverted. STEWART: Why is it that there is no other issue in this country with as dire

Charles Blow, of the New York Times, and Republican commentator Margaret Hoover discuss the power of the National Rifle Association in Washington and gun regulation on the Tuesday night broadcast of CNN's "Anderson Cooper." CHARLES BLOW, NEW YORK TIMES: I think when we talk about gun control and we only talk about gun owners as the o

O'Reilly discusses how Planned Parenthood uses money from the U.S. government.

Maddow discusses Chuck Hagel's comments on rape, abortion and homosexuality. She argues that Hagel's comments on these issues are more important to his nomination than people might think they are.