If you are some of these candidates, you don't go after Trump, you basically just try to use the limited amount of time you're going to get when there's 11 candidates on the stage to have one or two memorable lines to describe who you are.

Very, very dangerous. You have to communicate the essence of who you are, and what makes you distinctive, and what you're offering.

I would say about Donald Trump that this has been the summer of Trump. He's eclipsed the entire Republican field.

What he can't do is distort himself and try and be what he's not.

He was the flavor of the month in May and June, because he was going to be the guy who could bridge the gap between center right republicans and social conservatives and tea party republicans.

He can't tamper with what got him there, but he has to show some moments of sobriety and substance to signal that, you know, maybe he could actually do the job.

Maybe them in the Iowa caucus.

The president called it an act of terror the day after it happened, but when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration, then you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes.

We know that governor Romney's been practicing for months. I think the invasion of Normandy took less preparation than he's putting into these debates.

He entered it into the discussion. And now we're engaging in that discussion.

Are we going to spend $100 billion a year on off shore tax shelter of the sort that Governor Romney has availed himself off? Or are we going to use that money for better purposes?

We are very much for policies that are going to boost the middle class. We believe in building this economy from the middle-class out.

The only credential that Governor Romney is offering for the presidency is his business experience.

I think what they do care about, Anderson, is are we going to have a tax code that encourages outsourcing? That's what Governor Romney supports. He has a history in this area.

He's taken advantage of every single conceivable attack shelter and loophole.

The whole premise of the Romney campaign is a negative premise.

Thank you, Governor. Alex was a beloved member of our team. It's been a very emotional day.

A recent poll showed Governor Romney trailing badly here in his home state. These may be the only voters right here for Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. It's a harsh judgment from the people who have come to know him best.

When Governor Romney offers his business experience as his principal and only -- really his chief credential for running for office, he never talks about his years as Massachusetts governor, I think for a good reason, because it wasn't…

I think one of the reasons why Governor Romney and others were so timid in speaking out is Rush is because the de facto leader of the Republican Party.

If the Republican nominee wants to argue that we should take those away, we say, let's have that debate right now.

I thought that was a cowardly answer and it was a test of leadership and one that he failed.

Well, I guess Rush was in collusion with us by being vile and inappropriate in his comments. I mean, no, that's ridiculous.

If Rush has any concerns about this, he ought to look in the mirror because this was a -- this was an event of his own making. The president sought to comfort a young woman who had been vilified nationally for speaking her mind on a matter…

I thought that was a cowardly answer, and it was a test of leadership and one that he failed.