CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: These are the fruits of a completely incompetent, epically incompetent, foreign policy diplomacy by Obama. Here is the president of the greatest democracy on earth being lectured, insulting really, in an American newspaper about human rights, about international law, about the protection of the elderly and children in wartime.

JAY CARNEY: As for the editorial, you know, we're not surprised by President Putin's words. But the fact is that Russia offers a stark contrast that demonstrates why America is exceptional. Unlike Russia, the United States stands up for democratic values and human rights in our own country and around the world and we believe that our global securit

Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams on attacking Syria, isolationism, interventionism and American exceptionalism.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at the Heritage Foundation's 4th Annual Jesse Helms Lecture Series where he outlines three simple principles by which U.S. foreign policy should be guided.

"I almost wanted to vomit," Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said about Russian President Vladimir Putin's op-ed for the New York Times. "I worry when someone who came up through the KGB tells us what is in our national interests, and what is not. It really raises the question of how serious the Russian proposal is."

SECRETARY JOHN KERRY: The Russian delegation has put some ideas forward, and we’re grateful for that. We respect it. And we have prepared our own principles that any plan to accomplish this needs to encompass. Expectations are high. They are high for the United States, perhaps even more so for Russia to deliver on the promise of this moment. T

"Vladimir Putin is a trained killer, murderer, torturer, as a former KGB agent. Barack Obama is a trained lawyer, scholar and expert in the Constitution and he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, which of the two of them sounds like a Nobel Peace laureate and which of the two of them sounds like a thug who wants to kill?" Judge Napolitano asked on FOX

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, obviously we’re missing a few members of our Cabinet here today. In particular, John Kerry is overseas meeting on a topic that we’ve been spending a lot of time on over the last several weeks -- the situation in Syria and how we can make sure that chemical weapons are not used against innocent people. I am hopeful tha

Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen says President Obama is sending mixed messages on Syria.

SEN. BOB CORKER (R-TN): I really do think they heard our credibility around the world just in the muddled way that they have dealt with this Syrian issue. It is just a complete muddlement, if you will. And I don't know, the president just seems to be very uncomfortable being commander-in-chief of this nation.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, joins Martin Bashir to argue in favor of President Barack Obama’s approach on Syria – and chastise her fellow senator, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, over his comment that President Obama is trying to ally the United States with al Qaeda.

Dennis Miller weighs in on President Obama's speech on Tuesday night and a bizarre display between football announcer Brent Musburger and Eminem during halftime of a recent football game.

NJ Governor Chris Christie launched the first ad of his 2013 reelection campaign.

The "Special Report" panel marks one year since Benghazi and twelve years since 9/11.

O'REILLY: Once the President loses credibility on the life or death matter, the debate is pretty much over. So summing up, the President's speech on paper pretty good and he gained some ground, but not enough to turn the tide.

Chris Matthews recounts the ways he feels President Barack Obama could regain his “spark” in leadership. The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein and The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank join Hardball to discuss.