James Carville

I think it's a fascinating race and what I like about it is from everything that I hear and everything that I feel these two guys don't much care for each other.

I think if the issue is the economy, and it certainly is the economy, these two are the ones to look for who can make the best campaign, the best message to candidates.

It's hard enough to work on a campaign where you have a chance. You know? But it's really hard to work on a campaign where you know in the end that you are not going to prevail.

I mean it may be but there's probably a lot more to find out about it before I deem it as something really significant here yet.

I mean, she has a lot of energy. Look, the one thing is we know, Michele Bachmann, contrary to my endorsement and pulling for her is not going to be the Republican nominee.

I think Ari can believe that, too, given the pace of the presidential campaign, I think our gut instinct was right.

I suspect that the speaker's going to have to go and he is going to have to go and get something with some Democrats here, probably a lot of Democrats, to get anything through.

The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.

I suspect that the Speaker's going to have to go -- and he is going to have to go and get something with some Democrats here, probably a lot of Democrats, to get anything through.

Speaker -- what I will tell you, he didn't have the votes and they voted on a balanced budget amendment again.

Let me be very clear. I so oppose the Bush tax cuts. I particularly oppose them on people making over $250,000 a year.

I don't think we ought to pay to clean up your mess.

I particularly oppose them on people making over $250,000 a year.

This deficit was caused by irresponsible tax cuts tilted toward the wealthy, ill-thought-out and irresponsible wars, ok, and a deregulated, over-speculative financial sector.

I think the Democrats ought to campaign against this. I think they ought to say that these people held a gun to the country's head. They were willing to do what was bad by America and send us into default.

I have a theory that the only thing more dangerous than someone that thinks about re-election all the time is someone who never thinks about re-election.

Most experts say this is a very, very dangerous thing.

What's wrong with Boehner's plan is he doesn't have the votes. He can't get the Tea Party to vote for it. And, according to the President, that he doesn't want to revisit this thing during an election year.

This is like Napoleon in Moscow in 1812. The czar says I don't want to negotiate.

The Democrats can't surrender to somebody. They keep trying to surrender their vote.

Well, again, they said if you didn't do it on the 2nd, there would be plenty of money coming in. Most people say that that's not true.

I'm detecting a slight element of something I never heard before, a little fear in people in Washington, who say maybe this thing just can't get there.

Senator DeMint, one of the most powerful Republican senators, said that. Senator Toomey, who is an up-and-coming star of the Republican Party, says default would be fine, would be better for the country.

The public blames the Congressional Republicans much more than the President, Ari. That's a fact. That cannot be disputed.

They can extend it 30 -- they can extend the debt ceiling for 30 days pending the outcome. I mean, they're Congress. There's a 1,001 options they have before you get to this horrific thing called default.