Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer he wants Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) out of office for his gun bill. LARRY PRATT, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: It's so easy to say that you support the Second Amendmen

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The way I would answer your question is to say we're going to need a bigger boat. Obama is offering the most minuscule change to CPI that is recommended by every commission in the last 20 years. It is obvious; it's a correction. It means that today -- the whole point of indexing Social Security with inflation was a way to prote

Senator Rand Paul joined the students at Howard University to discuss civil rights, liberty and the future of freedom in America today. Text of his prepared remarks below. I’d like to thank President Ribeau, the Howard University faculty, and students for having me today. Some people have asked if I’m nervous about speaking at

Howard University student to Sen. Rand Paul: "Good afternoon, Senator. My name is Keenan Glover, I’m an administration of justice major from Rochester, New York. A freshman, as well. You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone. Quite frankly, I don’t want that. I want a government that is going to help me. I want a government

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: Americans will always want some level of inequality because it's a representation of a meritocracy. People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions: we think that they should earn a little more. And they should have more resources. And that's fine. But we also however have to have a floor u

FOX News' Bret Baier interviews White House press secretary Jay Carney about President Obama's budget proposal. CARNEY: What his budget proposal does and proves, Bret, is that you can continue to make key investments in the middle class, in education, in innovation to grow the economy and keep it creating jobs, and reduce our deficit in a respon

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, talks with Rachel Maddow about whether President Obama risks losing support from his base by capitulating too much to Republicans on Social Security and Medicare. RACHEL MADDOW: I feel like the argument -- you're answering my question implicitly by wanting to argue this on pol

BILL O'REILLY: What's your number one reason for opposing gay marriage? RICK SANTORUM: Well, the number one reason is because marriage is the union of a man and the woman for the purpose of coming together to build a building block for society and to have children. Marriage is -- [there's] lots of aspects to marriage, you know, romantic love is

REP. GREG WALDEN (R-OR): Well, I thought it very intriguing in that the budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors, if you will. And we haven't seen all the detail yet, and we'll look at it, but I'll tell you, when you're going after seniors the way he's already done on Obamacare, taking $700 billion out of Medicare to put into Oba

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): "There is a lot of rhetoric. The Administration is, I think, really playing on emotions. What it is not focused on are actual policies that will stop violent crime ... You’ve got the horrific tragedy in Newtown which the administration is, I think, trying to take advantage of." (Laura Ingraham Show, April 10, 2013)

Michelle Malkin and Leslie Marshall discuss Melissa Harris-Perry's "kids belong to the community" promo spot for MSNBC on "Hannity."

Michelle Obama lamented the loss of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton to gun violence, saying that as she met with the Pendleton family after the shooting, she realized how similar her own story was to that of the slain teen: "Hadiya's family was just like my family; Hadiya Pendleton was me and I was her - but I got to grow up."

Viewer discretion is advised. Surveillance video of two men shooting an employee at a Logan Square clothing store in the leg during a robbery attempt on April 9, 2013. The store clerk then beat the robbers with a baseball bat, before the two fled.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Growing our economy, creating jobs, shrinking our deficits. Keeping our promise to the generation that made us great, but also investing in the next generation -- the next generation that will make us even greater. These are not conflicting goals. We can do them in concert. That’s what my budget does. That’s why Iâ€

Sarah Merkle talks to Sean Hannity after a video of her testimony against gun control to Maryland lawmakers went viral. Here's what Merkle said: "By signing this legislation, you are not signing away gun violence but instead liberating American citizens of our constitutional rights. You are not eliminating guns from society, but eliminating our abi

SEN. TIM KAINE: I do view, frankly, your portfolio as the one where this president really is still looking for a very signature achievement – the budget area. The late submissions of budgets, probably, to some seems inconsequential, and yet it is statutory. Just to tell you, from the outside, how it looks, its not a question of competence, becaus

Chris Matthews discusses the possibility of a Repubican filibuster over universal background checks for gun buyers with Huff Post's Sam Stein and former congresswoman Blanche Lincoln. 

Bill O'Reilly laments the loss of the "wholesomeness" of the 1950s.

SEN. PAT TOOMEY: I’m a gun owner, and the rights that are enshrined in the Second Amendment are very, very important to me personally, as I know they are to so many people across Pennsylvania. My record shows this. I gotta tell you candidly, I don’t consider criminal background checks to be gun control. I think it’s just common sense. If you

Panel discussion on the problems and decrepancies the federal and state governments are having implementing the Affordable Care Act. 

Steve Schmidt, GOP strategist, and Rachel Maddow discuss how the presdient can address outrage from his supporters over the possibility of Social Security cuts.