Members of the Tea Party came to Washington to educate Washington. They didn't come there so Washington could educate them on how things were going to get done.

If the Boehner plan fails in the House of Representatives tomorrow, it's going to be a political calamity for Republicans.

I think there's no alternative.

the only way that the tax cuts for the upper income tier expires is if Barack Obama is willing to put on the table the individual mandate.

What was interesting to me was the Tea Party freshman said that he can see some type of accommodation for a short-term solution so long as they know they're going to get the structural reforms at the end of the day.

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…

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

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…

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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