CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: But, Juan, what he did say was, if you like what you have, you can keep it, period. When you add the word period, what you mean is there is no context, there are no percentages, 1%, 5%, 100%. There is no extenuations, there are no explanations, it's period. And that's the reason it passed, Jonah is right. That was an extremely

RACHEL MADDOW: Out of the shutdown, obviously, Ted Cruz made a lot of money in that process. Senator Cruz was able to lead in a way that attracted a lot of attention to him, made him a household name and raised a lot of money for his PAC and for associated outside groups that he is with. I don't know that that increases his power within the Sen

REP. BLACKBURN: Who was in charge as it was being built? KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: The CMS team was in charge… REP. BLACKBURN: At that team, who is the individual? KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: Michelle Snyder. REP. BLACKBURN: Michelle Snyder is the one responsible for this debacle? KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: Well, excuse me, congresswoman, Michelle Snyder

JOAN WALSH: I thought she did pretty well, given what she was dealing with and that she never broke down and said, you know, and told them what she was really thinking. I thought she explained the law very well, you know. And she's not denying there are problems and the president is not denying that either. And we're concerned about those problems.

"I feel like they're in a bunker mentality right now," NBC News' Chuck Todd said on "Morning Joe". "Ultimately, I think they think they're entire second term is going to be judged on the implementation of health care."

VICE PRES. JOE BIDEN TO CNN: "We were under the impression that it was ready to go. We had the president, to his credit, almost seven weeks out was saying, 'is it going to be ready?' and to be told by the pros that, 'yeah, this is all ready to go, all in line.' Neither he or I are technology geeks and we assumed that it was up and ready to run, but

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now it is also true that some Americans who have health insurance plans that they bought on their own through the old individual markets are getting notices from their insurance companies suggesting that somehow because of the Affordable Care Act, they may be losing their existing health insurance plans. This has been the latest fl

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now before we go to the audio sound bites, let me give you a quick overview, just a quick review of the hearings today, folks, with Kathleen Sebelius. I didn’t hear it all. It’s been on here. I didn’t turn the audio on through all of it, ’cause it’s a distraction. But what I saw alarmed me a little bit. It didn’t see

SEN. RAND PAUL: "I think government is inherently inept, but this brings it to a new level of incompetence. I can't imagine how she could continue in her job, she should resign really from mere embarrassment. I've never seen anything this bad and here's the thing when the president said you could keep your doctor and now we find out 2 million peopl

"We were anxious to get the website up and running and functional, which we have clearly failed to do to date. Although, I would suggest the website has never crashed. It is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday.

REP. GREG HARPER (R-MS): The president ultimately is responsible. While I think it’s great that you’re a team player, and you’re taking responsibility, it is the president’s ultimate responsibility, correct? HHS SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: Um… You clearly… Uh… Whatever. Yes he is the president. He is responsible for government pro

Tucker Carlson, Mara Liasson, and George Will discuss.

Jorge Ramos: I was listening to a speech by your father Rafael last July in Salt Lake City and he made a comparison between- of course he was born in Cuba. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): Right. Ramos: He made a comparison between Fidel Castro the dictator and President Obama. Do you agree with it? Cruz: Well, I will say that it is an incredible ble

BARACK OBAMA: But let's face it, we've had a problem. The website hasn't worked the way it is supposed to over these last couple of weeks. And as a consequence, a lot of people haven't had a chance to see just how good the prices for quality health insurance through these marketplaces really are. Ultimately this website, healthcare.gov, will be the

CNN's John King notes that on issue after issue, the president seems to be finding out about his administration's blunders at the same time as the public.

Jose Diaz-Balart, anchor for Noticiero Telemundo, talks with Rachel Maddow about why House Republicans should work on immigration instead of going home early.

O'REILLY: One of the weaknesses of liberal philosophy is idealism. Liberals want certain things such as low cost healthcare for everybody. But they don't really calibrate the unintended consequences of what they espoused. For example imposing so-called social justice, a big Obama theme, means somebody is going to have to pay for it. If you go to C

The latest salvo in the Republican civil war. Chris Matthews, Michael Steele and Ed Rendell discuss.

Republican Congressman Cory Gardner (R-CO) showed Kathleen Sebelius the letter he received cancelling his current policy. He then challenged her to join the Obamacare exchanges. Lastly, he called on her to condemn the infamous "bro-surance" Obamacare ad showing college students doing a keg stand.