CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: And remember how unserious was the presidential announcement. He didn't come out and announce it it himself, he had a deputy assistant secretary of state announce that we'd be shipping arms and that would be the game-changing event. Of course, the game hasn't changed, and the weapons haven't arrived, not a rifle has arrived. Wh

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): Madison was very explicit, when he wrote the Federalist papers, he wrote that history supposes, or the constitution supposes what history demonstrates is that the executive is the branch most likely to go to war and therefore the constitution vested that power in the Congress. It is explicit throughout all of Madison's writin

"[Obama]'s announced in advance that the purpose of the strike is not to bring down Assad. He said it in advance. That's not a botch, that's his objective -- is to send a message," syndicated columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer said on Tuesday's broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor. "I say, send a text. It's less expensive," Krauth

WOLF BLITZER: What happens if the president doesn't get a positive vote in the House of Representatives? What if he gets rejected there, as David Cameron did in Britain? REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): Well, I feel confident that our colleagues, my colleagues both on the Republican side of the aisle as well as the Democratic side of the ai

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The key point that I want to emphasize to the American people: The military plan that has been developed by the Joint Chiefs, and that I believe is appropriate, is proportional. It is limited. It does not involve boots on the ground. This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan. This is a limited, proportional step that will se

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I think that's one of the reasons to the resistance to the plan because as outlined by the president, it has really no objective of any importance. They say this is a demonstration strike, a shot across the bow. A shot across the bow is a warning that if you don't stop, we're going to do something real. Obama saying openl

ANN COULTER: "We're talking about our national security, him being the commander in chief and this is just a political game for them. You can not trust Democrats to be commander in chief and Americans remember that when you vote for a president. They can not take national security seriously. We do not intervene in countries to make America safer. I

"At this point, regardless of whether you like Obama or not, this has nothing to do with whether we like Obama or not, this question is a question of whether this is good for the United States of America," Laura Ingraham said Tuesday on "FOX & Friends." "The idea that the Republicans, and John McCain and Lindsey Graham march out of the White Hou

SEN. BARBARA BOXER: Now, since I came to the Senate, I voted against the Iraq War, but I did vote for the use of force against Osama bin Laden. I voted to support air strikes against Serbia, but I vocally opposed the military surge in Afghanistan. So I approached this Syria issue in the same way I approached those, with a very heavy heart and very

RUSH LIMBAUGH: And then late last night, early this morning, I run across this piece by Yossef Bodansky. And I look him up, find out who he is, just shared his resume with you, and his story, his article here is that there is evidence, mounting evidence that the rebels in Syria did indeed frame Assad for the chemical attack. But not only that, that

SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY: Mr. Chairman, it would be preferable not to, not because there's any intention or any plan or any desire whatsoever to have boots on the ground, and I think the president will give you every assurance in the world, as am I, as does the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]. But in the ev

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) questions Secretary of State John Kerry about the necessity of striking Syria and what the administration's motives are.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Congressman Paul, first to you. You are totally -- correct me if I'm wrong -- totally opposed to any U.S. military force in Syria right now despite all of that evidence that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own people, is that right? RON PAUL: Yes, but I don't accept your statement because I think that a lo

"I would not have referred the matter to Congress, and I think if I were a member of Congress, I would vote against an authorization to use force here," former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said on FOX News. "I don’t think it’s in America’s interest. I don’t think we should, in effect, take sides in the Syrian conflict. There’s

REP. NANCY PELOSI: I'll tell you this story and then I really do have to go. My five-year-old grandson, as I was leaving San Francisco yesterday, he said to me, Mimi, my name, Mimi, war with Syria, are you yes war with Syria, no, war with Syria. And he's five years old. We're not talking about war; we're talking about action. Yes war with Syria, no

HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: The use of these weapons has to be responded to and only the United States has the capability and capacity to stop Assad and to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated. I appreciate the president reaching out to me and my colleagues in the Congress over the last couple of w

BRIT HUME: "If you look at the Senate, the chances are that there are enough John McCains and Lindsey Grahams to join with most of the Democrats to get a majority for this in the Senate. The House, you’ve got to figure that the president will be able to round up a majority of the Democratic caucus. His challenge will be to get enough Republicans

BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX & FRIENDS: I know you met with General Idris, who is a defector from the Syrian Army, who has come out. Some say he does have ties to Muslim extremists, I don't know. Listen to this video of a Syrian, it looks like a fighter jet being shot out of the sky. Listen to what they say afterwards. [Video of Gen. Idris saying 'Allahu

RCP Executive Editor Tom Bevan discusses the president's options when it comes to getting Congress to approve military action against Syria with Toby Harnden, Sunday Times and Amanda Terkle, Huffington Post on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I think it’s a very tough call, but to do nothing, as I said, would have consequences throughout the world," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday. "But to do something that really doesn’t change anything, in other words some token strikes, and then some time later, Bashar Assad uses those chemical weapons again. Wha

SHANNON BREAM: Charles, the president reaching out after having drawn that red line a year ago saying, 'I'm going to bring Congress into this process,' now he has to get their votes. Does he have a newfound appreciation for the constitution, Article, 1 Section 8, how it all works? Why now do you feel he feels it's necessary to get Congress on board

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Yes. Can I just -- from my point of view, from the Republican point of view, there's a libertarian wing of our party that I very much respect that's not going to get -- fortress America, I just don't think, will work. But, having said that, it is not a mystery to me that most member of Congress are reluctant to engag

Charles Krauthammer, Steve Hayes discuss.