SEN. RAND PAUL: A lot of foreign aid, basically, is just stolen by leaders. Mubarak got $60 billion and 20 of that probably went directly into his pocket. They're crooks. During the rioting in Tahrir square, when they were dousing them with tear gas, it was paid for with U.S. taxpayer money and manufactured in Pennsylvania. Do you think the hundred

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "And I told the story about two conversations I had. The first conversation was when Michelle came back from doing some campaigning out in rural Iowa. And we were sitting at dinner, and she had been to like a big county, a lot of driving out there, a lot of farmland. And she said, if I was living out in a farm in Iowa, I'd probably

On HuffPost Live today, actor Jeremy Irons (Reversal Of Fortune, Die Hard With A Vengeance) blasted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the proposed restrictions on soda, along with the smoking ban, describing himself as a "complete libertarian" and likening Bloomberg's policies to a "nanny state." JEREMY IRONS: I'm a complete

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO): "I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available

KRAUTHAMMER: The president is out there; it’s rather puzzling. He’s tilting at windmills and he will lose. The windmill is going to win on this one. He is not going to get anything of importance. He might eke out a weak compromise on background checks. But you have to ask yourself why is he doing this? You hear Pfeiffer implying that we’re go

On the Wednesday broadcast of his MSNBC show "Hardball," host Chris Matthews asks his network colleague Andrea Mitchell if women "really worry about" wife beaters. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Is that close to the bone, the idea of wife beating some old -- or beaters? ANDREA MITCHELL: That was part of it. MATTHEWS: Yeah, but is that somet

Current TV: Bill is disappointed once again in some of the questions at the White House briefing regarding the sequester fallout. Bill says, "serious impacts of the sequester are being felt outside the beltway." He points to a recent Huffington Post article showing exactly where the pain is being felt. Bill adds, "White House reporters don't live i

JAMES CARVILLE: I think most Democrats -- we all love the vice president, but I think most Democrats feel like it's kind of her turn, if you will, if she decides to run. I don't know if she's going to decide to run, but certainly the psychology among people I talk to all the time, come up to me and say, 'Gee, I hope she runs, I think she'd be great

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) strikes again and insults a senior citizen concerned about how he is supposed to defend himself against criminals who have high-capacity magazines if they are banned. She says to wait for the police and otherwise he'd "probably be dead anyway." (via

RUSH LIMBAUGH: The New York Times is said to be top dog in the news business by reputation, size, and all that. I've often said the news business is trying to figure out what to do on the Internet. What do we do there? How do we monetize it? How do we make any money? Most of them just reprint their newspapers. They've have added some blogs, tr

MARK SANFORD: "Right now, the one thing that people know about her is that she is Stephen Colbert’s sister. Well, at the end of the day, Stephen Colbert is a very popular, well-regarded comedian, but at the end of the day he’s not on the ticket."

CBS: Presenting at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden - both potential 2016 presidential contenders - lauded each other for their respective work in the field of women's rights.

JAKE TAPPER: Governor, how would you respond to somebody who says, look, I understand where you're coming from, but you still oppose same-sex marriage, and yet you are somebody who did not lead an exemplary life as a husband? Who are you to deny love between two men or two women, when you are somebody who talks about following his heart, regardless

JAY LENO: “And in a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news gathering outlet in the world, will no longer use the term ‘illegal immigrant.’ That is out. No longer ‘illegal immigrant.’ They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat.’ That is the newest – ‘undocumented Democrat.’” (via

PFEIFFER: What our budget will do is follow the path of all of the bipartisan budget commissions that move us towards putting ourselves on a sustainable pace. This idea about, I know this is the new, I read this in Politico, poll-tested talking point of the Republicans, that they want to balance the budget. That certainly isn't what Paul Ryan thoug

"We should be prepared to do it right now," Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), a ranking member of the Armed Services Committee said about striking North Korea on "The Steve Malzberg Show" today. "In terms of the capability we have out there with the F-22s and the battleships … a pre-emptive strike from something like that would get their attenti

Jimmy and Jay sing their version of the classic duet "Tonight" from the Broadway musical "West Side Story."

MSNBC: The director of the NRA funded National School Shield Task Force, Asa Hutchinson, joins MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell for an exclusive interview on massacre control, how much the task force was paid, and who will profit from the recommendation to arm American school teachers.

Chris Hayes and a panel including Davis Axelrod discuss why some politicians can survive sex scandals and others can not.

Bill O'Reilly defends his criticism of gay marriage opponents, who he recently called "bible thumpers."

The Special Report panel looks at the White House's decision to furlough thousands of federal workers.

Rachel Maddow breaks down the latest political scandals including the plot to rig the NYC mayoral election, Bob McDonnell's ties to the diet pill Antabloc, and former SEC chief Mary Schapiro's decision to return to Wall Street.