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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There's a pretty substantial feeling in the Republican Party that this would be a good thing.

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.

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.

Well, I think it provided conservatives -- I think it provided cover to conservatives. Actually, when you look at the polls, they are not balanced at all who people are mad at. They are overwhelmingly mad at the congressional Republicans.

This is a great civics lesson because we have the President and the congressional leadership and they go to the White House and they sit around a table.

I don't know of a single Democrat that said that it is no big deal if we don't raise the debt ceiling.

A majority of the country says that they're not in favor of increasing the debt limit.

There's a large part of the sort of right-wing media... that says to heck with it. Just do it.

She didn't do anything to deserve this.

Look, the score on this thing is power 40,912, people 2. It's a rout.

We have got to hold them accountable.

We have got to get started on that pronto.

This president needs to tell BP, I'm your daddy, I'm in charge. You're going to do what we say. You're a multinational company that is greedy and you may be guilty of criminal activity.

You couldn't have a massive mess-up like this without a lot of people being complicit in it. Certainly the government was complicit.