When Mike Castle goes down to a Tea Party candidate, you've got a real insurgency going on in the party.

If you're a Republican incumbent coming to Washington after the election, one of the clear messages out of this, these primaries is that if you work across the aisle and work with Democrats, you do so at risk to your political life.

There is no way we're going to get from here to some sort of solution to that without the two parties joining forces.

I would hope, as we get copycats, they get less attention. I do think that he got to a place where he was getting a lot of interviews, and people were sort of putting him on.

I don't think he knows what the hell he's doing, Anderson. He just wants to be on the air, you know, and I don't think he's a -- he is not a rational human being.

He is the man who is inciting hate and he's the man who ought to be held accountable for it.

I think it was unwise for the president to get as deeply involved as he has.

Well, I think it certainly has become a political football. And there's no question that there were people in the political arena who did want to whip this up, and I think we all know that many of them are conservatives.

When you get 67 to 71 percent of people in polls saying they have real problems with this, you have to have some sensitivity to what the American public wants.

We can't let the extremists take over the argument.

I did not think he offered a lot of alternatives, nor did I think he truly had heard the voices of a Rosaleen or of an Andy when he sort of lumps people together who are opposing this as extremists.

But at the same time, the fact that two-thirds of New Yorkers, people who live in the city, told 'The New York Times' that they oppose it, and we see opposition in the country. The people opposing it are not bigots.