Paul Begala

It's the biggest business decision I think a president has made since Truman tried to seize the steel mills in 1952. President Obama was right.

We have that auto industry today, because President Obama stood up and took the risk. Governor Romney opposed it.

You know, Joe Louis, great Detroit, he once said about Billy Conn, who was a fast fighter -- he said, he can run, but he can't hide. The record is there.

Mitt Romney is not. Some of that is because of the attacks he's taking from Gingrich, as I say, because they go to character, many of them.

Newt Gingrich can do a lot of damage and I think he is doing a lot of damage. I don't think he can defeat Mitt Romney for the nomination, I will defer to my Republican friends on that.

Rick Santorum, who didn't really contest Florida as much, he had family issues, his poor daughter was in the hospital, he's gunning for Newt in Nevada.

You cannot be president of the United States if you cannot be honest and candid with the American people.

What a pathetic situation, to be running for the president of the United States with nothing positive to say for yourself!

Governor Romney has never had one day of experience trying to get something done in Washington.

He's right when he went to Kansas and he said the defining issue of our time is whether this economy will work for people who work for a living again.

He's going to talk about opportunity. He's going to talk about empowering people.

He's winning that all-important battle of setting the message frame for 2012 and it's more like, who's going to fight for the middle class.

The president called for a 30 percent tax rate for millionaires and billionaires. Thirty percent. I mean that's hardly Marxism.

Those guys are demonizing poor folks and working people every day.

I think voters get that. But what they are bothered by is when he -- when he makes money, even when the business fails; when he makes money, even when he lays people off; when he makes money, even when he's cutting benefits and jobs.

If I were advising Mitt Romney, I'd say, you know, so far, so good. If he hangs on, he doesn't have to win in South Carolina.

I think that's where Romney made a huge mistake, is that he tried to pretend that his business experience was something that it wasn't.

If I were advising Mitt Romney, I would say, you know, so far, so good. If he hangs on, he doesn't have to win in South Carolina.

I think Santorum's surge holds and I think that Romney will be within two points of the 25 percent that he got four years and $20 million ago.

It's stunning. There had been seven frontrunners in Iowa. Three of them are not even in the race any more.

It's stunning. There have been seven front-runners in Iowa. Three of them are not even in the race any more.

I'm the lone ranger. I think Santorum's surge holds, and I think that Romney will be within two points of the 25 percent that he got four years and $20 million ago.

I actually think he's going to win.

I trust that trend. I think he's going to win here.

They are seen now as the party of the wealthy elite and democrats are seen as the party of the middle class.