SALLY KOHN: I think the cautionary tale out of this is that a number of folks will try and use Detroit falsely as an example to push more austerity, to really cram more austerity down the throats of the United States. Look, every study that supposedly said austerity and cutting spending in order to create growth was a good idea has been disproven.

Eliot Spitzer releases his first campaign ad since announcing his candidacy for New York City comptroller.

Bernie Goldberg gives his take on how the mainstream media covered Obama's race speech and how he should have handled it.

QUESTION: So you said some Republicans are ready to go to default, some are not; some are willing to work with you guys, some are not. Where's the President's current view of where John Boehner stands on that spectrum? JAY CARNEY: I think the Speaker of the House has said that he doesn’t believe that we should allow the nation to default, an

SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UTAH): "Congress, of course, has to pass a law to continue funding government. Lately, we’ve been doing that through a funding mechanism called a continuing resolution. If Republicans in both houses simply refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that contains further funding for further enforcement of Obamacare, we can stop

LIZ CHENEY: You know, I'm in the race, Rush, because I'm very concerned, deeply concerned about what's happening in Washington and what it means for the state of Wyoming. You know when you look across the board at the encroachment of the federal government into every aspect of our lives, whether it is, you know, the massive debt, $17 trillion and

SCHIEFFER: You know the part that I -- really gives me pause, and that is this idea of a six-person jury. You know, how many times have we heard over the years a jury hung 10-2, or 10-1 -- or 11-1. You know, somehow or another, six people -- and I mean to cast no aspersions on the six people. These were six people and this is the way the jury syste

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Andrew, are we going to be - being we Americans, you included - are we going to be the great, are we still going to use that word superpower? I don't even like it very much. The lone superpower. Are we going to be that 20 years from now? ANDREW SULLIVAN: With any luck we won't be. We will understand what the founders understood.

CHUCK TODD: This speech, this "pivot," to the economy. It's like deja pivot, when it comes to the economy. But it seems, really, tat they are signalling that they are going to have a campaign approach to this fight with Congress, when it comes to the debt ceiling, when it comes to the sequestration 2.0. All of the decisions that are coming to a hea

David Brody: Talk me about your son and his rise. This must be a thing of God. It's meteoric. Rafael Cruz: (Ted Cruz's Father) Yes, but you know something, this is not something that started a couple of years ago. Let me go back to when he was maybe four. When he was four I used to read Bible stories to him all the time. And I would declare and

CHRIS WALLACE, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY HOST: You're pretty tough on what you call this town, Washington, D.C. Let's put up some of the quotes. You talk about people who had come to Washington to do good and stay here to do well. Their membership in what you call the club becomes paramount and self-defining. They become part of the system that rewards more

ED SCHULTZ: Tonight's question: should there be a race relations class in every public school? Now I'm going to vote yes on this. I believe that this has to be part of our public school discussion, that confrontation is not an option. That we need to love one another. And that loving your neighbor is what the almighty wanted us to do. Now, if y

TAVIS SMILEY: Black people now find themselves at the mercy of an African-American Attorney General to do something else. He came out this week at the NAACP this week and talked about the Stand Your Ground Law What do you make of the irony of who we have to depend on now to make a decision that I for one don't believe is forthcoming. CORNEL WEST