Ari Fleischer

Here's why the president is not the political winner in this. If he was the political winner, then why is the generic Republican candidate beating him by eight points in the recent Gallup poll?

It's kicking the can down the road so a grand bargain gets negotiated again later.

I think you're going to get some type of intermediate agreement made that's going to be of some modest level of spending cuts.

Well, I don't think it was symbolic at all, Sanjay. In fact the only institution in Washington of the House, the Senate and White House that has actually done its job and done anything meaningful on spending or debt is the House of…

If he was the political winner, then why is the generic Republican candidate beating him by eight points in the recent Gallup poll? And why is the President's job approval dropping now in several polls, including Gallup, into the low 40…

The public is very frustrated with everybody in Washington who cannot come to an agreement on this.

An agreement has to be reached. It's just not American for us not to be able to pay our bills.

People were fed up with deficits, fed up with debt, fed up with spending, fed up with health care reform.

This is what the American people spoke out for in 2010. This is what elected such a tsunami of Republicans to office.

If President Obama has put Medicare and Social Security on the table, he's covered them with a tablecloth, because nobody can see what he's talking about.

Who is he and what does he stand for fundamentally? What are his un -- abiding, his unchanging principles?

His biggest problem is his flip-flops, when he changed positions on a couple key issues, and for Republicans, abortion and gay rights issues, from his position as governor to when he ran in 2008.

I think Sarah Palin has always had a twisted relationship with the press.

There's no crime in seeking publicity. There's nothing wrong with that if you're a public figure, and it comes with Sarah Palin.

I think it's impossible to be Sarah Palin today without getting publicity for virtually anything she does in the public arena.

I do think it's possible that that's what she is doing. And if she did do it on purpose, who cares? So what? Politics is like that.

If he's not specific tomorrow, when will he ever be? He's already gone -- passed up three opportunities to be specific.

I think it's a fight to the finish and this finish ends up in stalemate, where Gadhafi knows he's safe on one side.

I'm glad he went in. It was the right thing to do. It should have been done much earlier.

This is something that should have been done four weeks ago, when it was really likely that the rebels by virtue of America's action in what would have been a multilateral action could have tipped the scales.

I think the likelihood is, we are going to end up in a stalemate.

All the spending that's been done since the President came into office has not worked.

If they don't, we're going to have a one-term President. If they do, then chances are Barack Obama is going to be in a stronger position.

Presidents have two hats they wear. One is the national healer, the one voice; moments like Tucson really make all Americans look to our President for inspiration.

If the unemployment does not drop, it doesn't matter if he's a 55 percent President.