SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KENTUCKY): I speak to you tonight from Washington, D.C. The state of our economy is tenuous but our people remain the greatest example of freedom and prosperity the world has ever known. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it’s not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think it was a very effective address, he did what he had to do. It started with one sort of political objective, which was to get way out front on the sequester issues, the deadline coming up on March 1, painting the Republicans as the party of the rich, protecting loopholes and he is the defender of the middle class, Medica

The text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, released by the White House as prepared for delivery: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress.

VAN JONES: "Let me tell you one thing about Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is dangerous for Democrats. He is dangerous. I was so glad he picked up that water bottle because where he was going, he was getting emotional. Marco Rubio is to the heart what Paul Ryan is to the head. Paul Ryan is dangerous because the strength of his intellect. This is a smart

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): Good evening. I’m Marco Rubio. I’m blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate. Let me begin by congratulating President Obama on the start of his second term. Tonight, I have the honor of responding to his State of the Union address on behalf of my fellow Republicans. And I am especially honored to be addr

Rep. Nancy Pelosi explains to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz how President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address restored confidence to the country on issues such as gun control and immigration. Pelosi also talks about Obama’s emphasis on survival, success and transformation for the well-being of Americans.

The MSNBC political panel reacts to President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address of his second-term, breaking down the highlights and points he may have missed.

JAY CARNEY: What I will concede is that we were looking and the Republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build a mechanism to get us out of default possibility and the sequester was one of the idea put forward, yes by the president's team. (Special Report, February 12, 2013)

RUSH: And why not him, he's saying. If not me, who? "[S]omebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies." You notice that all these people say, "It was very inappropriate! You shouldn't say that at the prayer breakfast with the president." Why not? That's the time to say it. If you happen to believe like I do and obviously D

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama has talked about pivoting back to the economy and I think his main objective right now, he's got to crisis coming up. That's going to be what's called the sequester, that is the automatic spending cuts agreed to in the debt ceiling deal of 2011 and that will make radical across the board cuts to the Pentagon and to domest

RNC: In the 2013 State of the Union, President Obama claimed his policies won't increase our deficit "by a single dime." But we've heard those promises before, and since President Obama took office, our national debt has increased by 58.6 trillion dimes.

FOX News and Bing measures how viewers reacted to different parts of President Obama's State of the Union address as it was being delivered using its "pulse" technology. Bing explains: Bing and FOX News Channel have partnered to launch the first-of-its-kind Bing Pulse online voting tool, which enables Americans to track and share opinions in rea

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) responds to the President's State of the Union address.

MSNBC: While competition is healthy, S.E. Cupp wants to tell the GOP that these dueling SOTU responses are a missed opportunity to agree with each other, rather than marginalize members of the party. S.E. CUPP: They say that if you aren’t a liberal when you’re young, you don’t have a heart. And if you aren’t a conservative wh

ABC News: Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley says President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of. "Betrayed is a good word," former Sgt.

MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA: Does the country have a spending problem sir? Does the country have a spending problem? REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD), HOUSE MINORITY WHIP: Does the country have a spending problem? The country has a paying for problem. We haven't paid for what we bought, we haven't paid for our tax cuts, we haven't paid for war. CARUSO-CAB

The GOP released this web ad on February 11.

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the need for the President to address the consequences of Obamacare and make the case for spending cuts in his State of the Union address tonight: “Tonight, we’ll welcome the President to the Capitol to deliver his State o

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS: When is the last time the president sat down with Congressional leaders to try to work out some kind of compromise to avoid this? VALERIE JARRETT, WHITE HOUSE: Well as you saw at the end of the last year, we made a great deal of progress. We were so close, Savannah. The president and Speaker Boehner were really just m

MSNBC: Rachel Maddow reviews the history of the State of the Union address both as a Constitutional requirement and a national tradition, with this year's events to include not just a Republican response but the relatively new tea party response to the Republican response, undermining the effort by Republicans to project a unified political image.

O'Reilly gives his take on President Obama's drone program and how Democrats are handling the issue.

Lawrence O'Donnell talks about how the GOP will respond to President Obama's State of the Union address.