BRET BAIER: Charles, to hear the president make this case, and this is really the first time we've heard him make it, it is an interesting way he's phrasing it. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I was surprised by the phrase 'shot across the b

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the real tragedy is that the prestige and the glory and the courage of the original civil rights movement, and many of the martyrs including Dr. King, has left people living in that age, and imagining that that's where the struggle ought to be today. In those days, the struggle was terrible laws, a legal system of s

SEN. TED CRUZ: This has been an imperial presidency. It has been a lawless presidency. You look at what's going on in Syria. Right now, in the UK, they're having an emergency session of parliament to consider Syria. In Israel the Knesset is considering an emergency session and yet President Obama apparently wants to go to the UN but can't be bot

CHRIS MATTHEWS: At least back in 1939 when Marian Anderson had to sing here "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" rather than at the Constitution Hall because they said the reason was she was black. At least they were honest back then. Today in American politics you have people like Donald Trump who hangs around with Mitt Romney talking about the president be

WALTER WILLIAMS: I think that something that's not spoken of very much is that black Americans have made the greatest gains over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest span of time than any racial group in the history of this world. Why do I say this? Well, if you just add up the income that black Americans earn and thought of us as a separate

JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS NEWSHOUR: Mr. President, you’ve just come from making a speech at – celebrating a nonviolent event, the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s speech 50 years ago. We’re going to get to that in just a moment. But first, we want to ask you about a place where there’s been too much violence: Syria. How close are you to

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I would distinguish between civil rights issues, voting rights issues – you know, some of the – the core legal protections that came about in 1964. You know, in those areas it’s true that we’ve had some opinions, the most prominent one being the case where the Roberts court struck down a key segment of the Voting Righ

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, what’s happened has been heartbreaking, but when you start talking about chemical weapons in a country that has the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world, where over time, their control over chemical weapons may erode, where they’re allied to known terrorist organizations that, in the past, have targeted the

SEAN HANNITY: Here with reaction to this and much more is Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, thanks for being with us. What should the response be from your perspective? SEN. TED CRUZ, R-TEXAS: Well, Secretary Kerry is right that Assad using chemical weapons is an outrage and it's wrong. But unfortunately missing from his statement and from the pr

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much, to President Clinton, President Carter, Vice President Biden, Jill, fellow Americans, five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-ARIZONA): "Now this is the same president that two years ago said that Bashar Assad must leave office, and so where is America’s credibility? Where is our ability to influence events in the region? And I promise you that those who say we should stay out of Syria do not understand that this is now a regional conflict."

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: We cannot be discouraged by a Supreme Court decision that said we don't need this critical provision in the Voting Rights Act because, look at the states. It made it harder for African-Americans and Hispanics and students and the elderly and the infirmed and poor working folks to vote. What do you know? They showe

JESSE JACKSON: "I think we are freer, but less equal. I think that those who would like President Barack [Obama] to have a Lyndon Johnson moment. You know, when Dr. King spoke, he was speaking to the White House and the Congress to of course respond to our plea of inequality and for jobs and freedom."

Actor and singer Jamie Foxx spoke at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington recounted a meeting with his daughter and Harry Belafonte that inspired him to step up and inspire the future generations to take action. "What we need to do now is the young folks pick it up now, so that when we're 87 years old, talking to the other young folks

"The President has made it clear: we're not going to negotiate over the debt limit," Lew told CNBC in an interview.

Charles Lane, Nina Easton, and Charles Krauthammer discuss. 

Chris Matthews questions where the Right is headed between now and the 2016 elections.

O'REILLY: If America wants to be a world leader we can't allow a tyrant to violate international law by using chemicals weapons. If Assad gets away with that, the world will devolve into a destructive free-fire zone where anything goes.

Congressman Scott Rigell, R-Va., member of the House Armed Services Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about his call for President Obama to consult with Congress before taking any action on Syria over the use of chemical weapons.