HOWARD DEAN: Ted Cruz may be a very good politician, but he certainly doesn't know anything about healthcare. First of all, Obamacare, is in fact -- as John McCain suggested in 2008, is going to -- eventually going to separate health care from employment. That's actually a good idea which John McCain put forward, and that's going to happen graduall

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GEORGE WILL: Our military is rightly leery of making a gesture; they're not in the gesture business. And they have a feeling that's what they would be doing. Throwing -- lobbing cruise missiles, these standoff weapons, into a country to make us, what, feel or look good? The president on CNN this week said, the use of gas is going to require America

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL (R-LOUISIANA): Well, I have a lot of respect for General Powell. I think our party at its best, at its core principles, looks at people and treats them as individuals, not as members of special interest groups. Let's talk about some of these specific examples. Let's talk about impeachment, for example. Look, I reject that kind of

CANDY CROWLEY: I have to get this birth certificate off the table. I think it's fairly cool that you had dual citizenship. You could go run for the Canadian parliament. You could go run for president. What’s wrong with that? SEN. CRUZ: I think it's the silly season in politics. I was born in 1970 in Calgary, Canada; my parents were working the

BOB SCHIEFFER: what do you think the implications and the fallout of the Trayvon Martin case will be? COLIN POWELL: I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part of the judicial system down there. But I don't know if it will have staying power. These cases come along, and they blaze across the midnight sky, and then after

DAVID WEBB: This thing isn't a bump in the road; it's a giant sinkhole in the American economy. Look at the reality of how Obamacare was passed. This thing was a party line vote. It was not based on fixing the system. And there's something Americans need to realize here, Chris. While it's only 2,000 something pages, which is ridiculous in nature

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Raul Labrador, Sheryl WuDunn, Al Sharpton, David Brooks, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Another story, the NSA story, where it seems that almost every day, there is another revelation that comes out about the fact that the NSA, our government had access to more information, communications involving Americans, than we had suspected or had thought, that they have violated their own rules in collecting thousands of

George Will, Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts and Dan Balz discuss.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: Let me move you on to a couple of political issues. One of them is, do you see yourself supporting incumbents during primary challenges or would you entertain supporting a challenge? SEN. TED CRUZ: I have not made a definite decision on that. I think it is likely that I'll stay out of all incumbent races on either side. CR

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On "Meet The Press" this morning, Governor Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana) blasted the U.S. Department of Justice for filing a petition challenging equal opportunity for education and school choice in Louisiana. JINDAL: So, a couple things. Obviously, I disagree with the president. I think we still have a deficit and a debt crisis. Debt's

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