CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I'm not so sure it's about the base, it's about each party expressing these ideological beliefs in numbers, and that is what is suppose to happen. I mean, the good news here and the new news here is not the Ryan budget, which is recapitulation of the ones we heard last year and the year before but that fact that Democrats actua

CHRIS MATTHEWS: “This mismanaged thing -- went to war on false pretenses that they didn’t even believe were the reasons they went to war. If you get them and if you waterboard Cheney, he ain’t going to say weapons of mass destruction. He's going to say, 'I wanted to get Iraq, and I saw my chance.'" (via

"I think he decided he could turn hard left. I think he forgot that the people sent to the people's House a substantial Republican majority intending to put a break on the president," Judge Andrew Napolitano said today on FOX News. The election results reflect that voters favored a divided government, according to Judge Napolitano. "The presiden

QUESTION: Jay, this morning the National Journal quoted a senior administration official who spoke anonymously and said about the President’s trips to the Hill and this outreach to Republicans, “This is a joke. We’re wasting the President’s time and hours. I hope you all (in the media) are happy because we’re doing it for you.” Is th

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) talks to CNN about the "aggressive" pat-down she received at the airport.

HOWARD FINEMAN: I was in Kentucky last week at the big Democratic dinner of the establishment. They don't have a candidate to stop her. If they want to stop her from getting in or if they want to stop her from winning the Democratic nomination in the Kentucky Senate primary a year from this May, they need to coalesce around an alternative. They don

"My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. My goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work, and if we do that we are going to be bringing in more revenue," President Obama said in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

Vanderbilt freshman Michael Pollack managed to get onstage and perform "New York State of Mind" with Billy Joel. 

DR. BEN CARSON: "We have to be cognizant of whether we in fact want to be a nation where we rule our own lives, or whether we have the government invading every aspect of our life. This is a very, very serious issue and I think a lot of people are asleep at the wheel and we have to keep sounding the alarm until people recognize that we're giving aw

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WIS), House Budget Committee Chairman: "The election didn't go our way. Believe me, I know what that feels like. That means we surrender our principles? That means we stop believing in what we believe in?. We owe the country solutions to the big problems that are plaguing our nation, a debt crisis on the horizon, a slow-growing ec

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): Democrats believe it is critical that we stabilize the deficit. But it will take more than accounting gimmicks to achieve real deficit reduction. And at a time when corporations are making record profits, the stock market is soaring and wealthy Americans’ income continues to rise, that deficit reduction shouldn’t be come

PIERS MORGAN: I disagree with you. I think people need them occasionally, particularly on issues like smoking, drinking, guzzling sodas too big for them, you know, eating 16 Big Macs a day, whatever it may be, the reality is we all need a bit of nannying about that. That's why so many people are on diets. That's a form of nanny state.

Rachel Maddow on the sequester and CPAC.

"The issue is how you achieve it, and making sure you achieve it in a way that doesn’t harm the very fragile recovery we’re having right now," Rep. Chris van Hollen (D-MD) said to Bill Hemmer on FOX News. He called Ryan’s approach ‘lopsided and uncompromising,’ and he asserted that Democrats will propose their own budget that won’t harm

Tucker Carlson, Juan Williams, and Charles Krauthammer discuss the outlook of ongoing budget negotiations.

Ezra Klein speaks with MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry about why congressional Republicans ignore the views of their consitutuents and insist on austerity and tax cuts for the wealthy. 

Bill O'Reilly justifies his anger at federal policies and those who defend them.

Chris Matthews discusses Paul Ryan's new budget plan and his quest to eliminate the Affordable Care Act.