CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: There's a way in which in the end it helps the country, the party in opposition, which hypocritically attacks the party in power and then after it comes into power realizes that it made a mistake. It was being naive or deliberately attacking, knowing its arguments were false, at least it adopts the right policy. So, I think it

LAURA INGRAHAM: Imagine if all the conservative media were actually aligned on this. A lot of people, a lot of people are silent out there. A lot of people not saying anything. They’re afraid, or it’s a lot of money on the line, or I don’t know what it is. Last time around we had a united front. PATRICK J. BUCHANAN: Well, they were persua

FMR. REP. RON PAUL: "I'm worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile. I mean, we live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed. But the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what's going on. He's not defecting, there is no signs of that happen

Answering a question about the $16 trillion in national debt at a debate on Tuesday night, Massachusetts Senate hopeful Rep. Ed Markey (D) says "it's not math, it's arithmetic."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at press conference, says that Speaker Boehner should look to win Democratic votes for passage of immigration reform. "I was encouraged to hear Speaker Boehner say he has plans to pass an immigration bill, a reform bill" Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said at the afternoon press conference on Tuesday. "I hope the S

WKRO-AM: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) announced this past Sunday that she will be supporting the Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform bill (S. 744). Her endorsement of the bill brings the number of Republican supporters to six and strengthens the chances of attaining the necessary 60 votes to pass the bill and avoid a filibuster. Senator Ayotte j

ACLU's Alexander Abdo explains why his group is suing the federal government over the NSA's surveillance program. ABDO: "The government should be able to surveil people when it has a reason to do so,but it shouldn't be indiscriminately sweeping up the communications of millions of innocent Americans. We learned last week of a sweeping program of

MS. PSAKI:　 We are not at October 2013 yet, that’s correct.　 (Laughter.)　 One, let me first say that there is a statement that Mr. Kennedy himself has released, which many of you may have.　 Two, this is a memo that you’re referring to that had unsubstantiated accusations in it.　 This is a case where we are – of course take every all

"He’s a traitor," Speaker John Boehner said about NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. "The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk. It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are. And it’s a giant violation of the law."

PRESIDENT OBAMA: So my administration has done what we can on our own. And we’ve got members of my administration here who’ve done outstanding work over the past few years to try to close up some of the gaps that exist in the system. But the system is still broken. And to truly deal with this issue, Congress needs to act. And that moment is

Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the NSA surveillance story, talks with Rachel Maddow about the details of his reporting on how the NSA works with tech companies to collect data for analysis for threats to U.S. security. 

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): Well, see, this is why the American public has such a low regard for politicians. It’s utter frank hypocrisy.  This is also the same president who made all those grand promises. Who signed legislation that says an American citizen can be arrested without charge indefinitely detained, and sent to Guantanamo Bay, but he says

Chris Hayes talks with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and NSA whistleblower Russell Tice about Edward Snowden's decision to come forward as the source of a new series of NSA leaks.

O'REILLY: Simply can't have American authority spying on the folks, storing their e-mails. It can't happen. This "Prism" program should be shut down immediately. If it's not, a class action suit should be filed and the Supreme Court should hear it as quickly as it can.

Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer, Shannon Bream, and Juan Williams discuss the politics and policy of the NSA situation. 

RON PAUL: So my question should be, to all of you who defend this nonsense is, what should the penalty be for the people who destroy the constitution. They're always worrying about how they're going to destroy the American citizens who tell the truth to let us know what's going on. We ask the question, what is the penalty for the people who deliber

"I think he has Obamaphobia," Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said about Sen. Ted Cruz's opposition to the Senate's immigration reform proposal. "The reality is that it is the Gang of 8 that came together -- four Democrats, four Republican -- and said that we need a path to citizenship. It's a tough path, it's a long path, but it's a fair path at the end