CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's simple, but the administration has not done what is simple and logical and what you'd expect from any government, to be honest with the American people with exactly what happened. I think the administration is counting on three things here. The total lack of interest by the mainstream media, and essentially covering for th

RUSH LIMBAUGH: They cannot understand how this continues to happen while Republicans continue to lose, and while it all goes on, the consultants are getting rich to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. One of the ways it works is that the consultant gets the advertising commission. Every dollar spent on advertising there's a 15% sales commi

SEN. TED CRUZ TO SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: "On the substance, if it makes us wacko birds to stand for liberty, to stand for the Constitution, then that’s a badge of honor I wear proudly."

BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS: You came up at CPAC yesterday – Senator Rand Paul, you guys have been sparring back and forth, here’s his veiled shot at you: SEN. RAND PAUL: The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered.

White House press secretary Jay Carney is interviewed by FOX News' Jenna Lee about the administration's decision to cancel White House tours and whether the administration is denying access to Benghazi survivors.

President Obama, in Chicago, cracks a joke about the sequester cutting the number of chairs.

MITT ROMNEY: Of course I left the race disappointed that I didn’t win. But I also left honored and humbled to represent the values we believe in and to speak for so many good and decent people. We've lost races before, and in the past, those setbacks prepared us for larger victories. It is up to us to make sure that we learn from our mistakes and

"This has been a really big week," Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in his speech at CPAC on Friday. "We got white smoke from the Vatican, and we got a budget from the Senate." "But when you read it, you find the Vatican's not the only place blowing smoke this week," Ryan added.

Governor Bobby Jindal speaks at CPAC.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices. He's proposing an energy security trust that would use revenues from federal leases on offshore drilling. (March 15)

Donald Trump speaks at CPAC 2013. 

LAPIERRE: "It's gonna be people like you and me. That's who they're tracking. That's who they're after. The names of good, decent people, all across this country, who happen to own a firearm, to go into a federal database with universal registration of every lawful gun-owner in America. That's their answer to criminal violence? Criminalize 100 mill

MSNBC: Newly-minted GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas verbally sparred with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., during a Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons. The Morning Joe panel -- including New York Magazine's John Heilemann and MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton -- discusses the hearing and why Ted Cruz was in the wrong.

Filmmaker R.J. Cutler discusses the time he spent with Dick Cheney for his new documentary about the politician.

"I've come to the conclusion that for me, personally, I think this is something that we should allow people to do, to get married, and to have the joy and stability of marriage that I've had for over 26 years. That I want all of my children to have, including our son, who is gay," Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told CNN's Dana Bash.

On Thursday's "Special Report," Bret Baier sat down with FedEx CEO Fred Smith to talk about the state of the U.S. economy.

Lawrence O'Donnell takes us through his view of the heated exchange between Sens. Feinstein and Cruz over the Second Amenment. 

Special Report panel discusses the confrontation between Sens. Feinstein and Cruz over gun control. 

Rachel Maddow highlights Rep. Louie Gohmert's remarks at a CPAC panel on whether the U.S. should fight more war in which he declares that the Vietnam War was "winnable."

O'Reilly slams Democrats in the Colorado House of Representatives for rejecting Jessica's law, which strenghtens prison sentences for child abusers.