CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, listening to that excerpt from Ed Henry, you would think that's the campaign speech of someone running against Barack Obama. Obama is indicting the four years, the five years he's been president. He said the rich have done well, everybody else has stalled, inequality has increased. Well, the four years, the five years are

GEORGE WILL: It was an agreeably harmless talk, really, in a sense, that there were no big ideas. There were the chestnuts to which Charles refers, a lot of gesture liberalism. Things people like, like minimum wage and all that won't really change America in any meaningful way. There was an absence of what we were told to look for, which was re

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Well, there wasn't a lot in the speech. Of course, he's playing a very weak hand. I was impressed by the fact that he delivered it with conviction, because again, there and wasn't a lot in it. I would call it the chestnut speech, there were so many old chestnuts that were shown it was almost embarrassing.

DANA BASH, CNN: Is he a liability for you, the president back home? SEN. MARK UDALL (D-CO): When the president comes to Colorado and talks about our all-the-above energy approach -- we've got lots of natural gas and solar power -- that resonates with Coloradoans. When he talks about making sure our veterans are treated properly that resonates wi

NORAH O'DONNELL: I think the rest of his speech really just proved that Obama's proposals have gone from grand to granular. Right, from these grand sweeping proposals at the beginning of his second term to the granular, more modest scaled back proposals. 

SEN. HARRY REID: Any time the President of the United States appears supporting a candidate, it helps. Ronald Reagan hurt me by coming to my state all the time. Barack Obama is personally a very popular guy. People love this man. People love his family. Of course, with what the Republicans have been doing, trying to denigrate him with what's happen

BRET BAIER: You made some statements and you were asked a series of questions about womens' issues and Democrats and you talked about President Clinton. It created quite a stir. Any thoughts about those statements? SEN. RAND PAUL: You know what I think is funny about it is so many people bring it up and say, 'Why is he bringing up Bill Clinton f

ANDREA MITCHELL: Those words, Axis of Evil, I was standing there in Congress and called the control room, I said ‘This is a big deal.’ The State Department, with all due respect, Colin Powell did not focus enough on those words and get them taken out of the State of the Union. Up until that moment, Iran was cooperating with the United States on

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) delivered a response to President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address. Rodgers highlighted lingering issues with the economy, unemployment, and objections to the affordable care act. MCMORRIS RODGERS: What an honor it is for me to be with you after the President's State of the Union.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades. An entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech startup, and did her part

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: What I offer tonight is a set of concrete, practical proposals to speed up growth, strengthen the middle class, and build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class. Some require Congressional action, and I’m eager to work with all of you. But America does not stand still – and neither will I. So wherever and whene

ALEX CASTELLANOS, GOP STRATEGIST: I think I've said before that I think a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex. The worst there ever was is still excellent, and I thought he gave a very competent performance tonight. One of the things working with candidates is when they're in a weak political position, sometimes they confuse volume and loud

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers his own response to the State of the Union.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) deliver the official Tea Party response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union.

CHRIS CUOMO, HOST: You are a little bit the face of the resistance going into tonight. When you hear that the president says, I couldn't get $9 done with your help. I'm going to go to $10, and I'm going to do it myself, and I hope that will incentivize you to come along with me and do the right thing for workers, does this provide incentive to you?

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): Any time the president of the United States appears supporting a candidate, it helps. We - you know, Ronald Reagan hurt me by coming to the state all of the time. Barack Obama is personally a very popular guy and people love this man, they love his family. Of course, with what the Republicans have been doing, trying to denig

"I'm doing well from a health standpoint, got great docs," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday when asked about his health. “Fortunately -- even though my new coverage won’t cover my specialist -- I'm going to have great care, and I have a great prognosis." Coburn recently announced he will retire from Con

Ahead of the State of the Union address tonight, House Speaker John Boehner warns President Obama against any other executive actions that could encroach on the Constitution.

Daily Show: Governors Rick Scott and Rick Perry sell Sean Hannity on their respective states, but Nathan Lane, Tim Gunn and the cast of "Jersey Boys" make a strong counter argument.

This ad from Sen. Ted Cruz accuses the Obama administration of disregarding the law and the Constitution.

AL GORE: Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available — so women can choose how many children and the spacing of children — is crucial to the future shape of human civilization. Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century; more

WILLIE GEIST: But you know the president very well. We know what this poll says about how the country is feeling about him. How is he feeling about the country right now? I mean, this is a guy who came in five years ago saying change comes from outside Washington. We are going to break the fever, we are going to change the way Washington does busin

Megyn Kelly and Andrew Napolitano discuss whether the president's unilateral executive orders are real.

Sen. Rand Paul is making broad claims about the Democrats’ “war on women” — but he’s missing the mark. Howard Fineman and Joy Reid join Chris Matthews to discuss.

Kevin McArdle, statehouse bureau chief for New Jersey 101.5 FM, talks with Rachel Maddow about the politics of the committee probing the NJ traffic scandal.

Steve Hayes, Nina Easton, Charles Krauthammer, and Juan Williams join Bret Baier to discuss the president's 2014 agenda.