Romney on Gingrich: "Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory."....Romney press secretary Andrea Saul on Gingrich: "A desperate candidate...An unreliable leader...An unreliable conservative."....Rep. Peter King on Gingrich: "Erratic...Self-centered...He'd be a terrible nominee."....Gingrich on Ron Paul: "Systemic avoidance of reality."....Ron Paul ad on Romney: "Serial flip-flopper."....Gingrich on Romney: "Moderate."....

Romney on Obama: "Is going to put free enterprise on trial."....Paul Krugman on Romney: "Seems confident that he will pay no price for making stuff up."....Biden on Romney: "Appears satisfied to settle for an economy in which fewer people succeed."....Romney on Biden: "Chutzpah...Delusion...Fantasyland."....Gingrich on Reid and Obama: "It's disheartening seeing them turn us into a Third World country."....Bachmann on Obama: "Acting like we're a Banana Republic."....NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox on Obama: "Imposing his anti-freedom values on the American people."....Hugo Chavez on Obama: "A clown."....McCain on Obama: "Using [withdrawal from Iraq] as part of the propaganda for his re-election."....Gingrich on Ron Paul: "The key to his volunteer base is people who want to legalize drugs."....Ad by pro-Romney Super PAC: "Newt has more baggage than the airlines."....John Cassidy on Gingrich's opponents: "Clubbing him like a baby seal."....Erick Erickson: "The Republican Party has gone insane."....Pat Robertson on SNL Tebow sketch: "Anti-Christian bigotry."....Ted Rall on editorial cartoonists: "We suck."....

Judge James Zagel on rejected Blagojevich appeal: "Harebrained."....Vladimir Putin on US foreign policy: "America doesn't need allies, it only needs vassals."....National Review on Gingrich: "Again and again he put his own interests above those of the causes he championed in public."....David Brooks on Gingrich: "Has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with '60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance."....Romney on Gingrich: "An extraordinarily unreliable leader."....Joe Klein on Gingrich: "Dangerous nonsense passed off as considered thought."....Charles Krauthammer on Gingrich: "Has a self-regard so immense that it rivals Obama's -- but, unlike Obama's, is untamed by self-discipline."....Breitbart on Beck: "A coward...A huckster."....Barbara Walters: "The day after someone else is elected, Donald Trump is still going to be saying he's the candidate."....Rep. John Dingell in his annual "Winter Wonderland" jingle: "House bells ring, are you listening / On the floor a job plan's missing / A terrible sight / A horrible blight / Washington is stuck in never land."....

Former GOP Sen. James M. Talent on Newt Gingrich: "He's not a reliable or trustworthy leader."....GOP Sen. Tom Coburn on Gingrich, 2010: "He's the last person I'd vote for for president of the United States...His life indicates he does not have a commitment to the character traits necessary to be a great president."....GOP Rep. Peter King: "Newt Gingrich was a disaster as Speaker...Everything was self-centered. There was a lack of intellectual discipline."....Former GOP Rep. Susan Molinari: "His leadership style really sort of evolved into leadership by chaos."....GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: "There's two tales. Transformative...Then there was the Newt that got us all frustrated and upset and that's the guy who was erratic."....Former GOP Rep. Chris Shays: "He's a true entrepreneur in the classic sense...You can launch the business, but you can't necessarily run it."....

George Will on Newt Gingrich: "Embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive."....Ron Paul ad on Gingrich: "Serial hypocrisy."....David Axelrod on Gingrich: "The Godfather of gridlock."....Gary Kamiya on Gingrich: "A narcissistic, ethically challenged trough-feeder and third-rate history professor."....Cato VP David Boaz on Gingrich: "You don't want this guy's finger on the button. He is a megalomaniac and volatile."....Will Wilkinson: "If Newt Gingrich becomes president, we all deserve to die in a purifying fire."....Chris Matthews on Trump: "Ringmaster of the Republican clown show."....Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump: "A reflexive liar."....Edward Morrissey on Trump: "A desperate, publicity-hungry game-show host."....Karl Rove on Trump debate: "It's going to be a giant ego trip."....Trump on Rove: "Highly overrated...A loser."....