The real problem here is a trust problem and it's enormous. At the focal point of it is Speaker Boehner. Senator Reid does not trust Speaker Boehner. I doubt the president does either.

John Boehner is the Muhammad Ali of surrender. I mean, he surrenders to that right-wing Ted Cruz caucus every day of his job.

You don't have to make a deal, but once you do, you have to honor the deal.

A congressional leader in the Democratic Party told me this at the very beginning of this, said, they're too dumb to take yes for an answer, too dumb to know that they've won.

I committed math this afternoon. I went and looked it up.

Nancy Pelosi talked about it today after the meeting at the White House. You could see the frustration.

The problem here is not the Republicans, certainly not the Democrats. It's the Tea Party. It is a faction within the Republican Party that has hijacked this party.

It's humiliating for the Republicans, it's hurting them desperately in the polls.

Obamacare is the law of the land, it's here to stay.

So, probably nothing could be more unkind to Barack Obama than bring up a failed, dishonest man like Dick Cheney and compare President Obama to Mr. Cheney.

Under Bush and Cheney, President Bush and Vice President Cheney, we were a nation of men, not a nation of laws.

We are a nation of laws. Again, under Bush and Cheney, President Bush and Vice President Cheney, we're a nation of men, not a nation of laws.