Rep. Maxine Waters on John Boehner and Eric Cantor: "Demons...Are destroying this country rather than bringing us together."....Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood on GOP transportation bill: "Lousy...Takes us back to the Dark Ages."....Rick Santorum on contraception: "A license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be."....Matt Taibi on Romney: "Looks like a walking OCD diagnosis."....Mary Elizabeth Williams on Nancy Grace: "A full-on loose cannon, a disseminator of disinformation and an ego gone rogue."....Erick Erickson: "More than a few of the twenty- and thirty-somethings who go to CPAC seem to treat it like an extension of their college days, doing their best to hook up before passing out."....Melissa Clouthier on young CPAC attendees: "Looking and acting like the cast of Jersey Shore."....National Review on Gingrich as nominee: "Would be a grave mistake."....

Mitch McConnell on Obama: "Rigid in his view that he gets to decide what somebody else's religion is."....Romney on Obama budget: "An insult to taxpayers."....Ron Paul on GOP rivals: "All of them are typical of what's wrong with this country."....Paul Begala on Rick Perry: "Couldn't spell 'cat' if you spotted him the 'c' and the 't.'"....Fidel Castro on GOP primary: "The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance there has ever been."....

Piers Morgan on Madonna halftime show: "Gruesome!...Like watching your mad drunken aunt at Christmas!"....Rick Santorum on global warming: "The hoax."....Fidel Castro on Obama UN speech: "Gibberish."....Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump: "A buffoon...America's biggest loser."....Trump on O'Donnell: "The dumbest man on television."....David Rees on Gingrich: "The only way he'd be a worse Dickens villain is if he were a one-legged chimney sweep named Pickpocky Blowhardmor."....Matt Taibbi on Santorum: “The nation’s leading pious, finger-wagging bore, the Anita Bryant of his time.”….Cal Thomas on Rachel Maddow: "She is the best argument in favor of her parents using contraception. I would be for that and all the rest of the crowd at MSNBC too for that matter."....Ann Coulter on Dems: "Could use a sunny day as an excuse to destroy the free market, redistribute income and pander to lobbyists."....

Gingrich on Romney: "Fundamentally dishonest."....Pawlenty on Santorum: "A leading earmarker and pork-barrel spender...Simply not ready to be President."....Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley on Romney: "Never touts his own record -- because it's abysmal."....Charles Blow on Romney: "If only he had a heart, and if only that heart was connected to his brain."....Ted Rall: "The U.S. government's top priority is invading Muslim countries and bombing their citizens."....Chris Christie on Jersey Shore cast: "Losers."....

Newt Gingrich: "Nobama and NoRomney is about the same."....Romney super PAC ad on Gingrich: "Is no Ronald Reagan."....Gingrich on Romney: "It used to be pious baloney, now it's desperate baloney."....Former Gingrich aide Rick Tyler on Romney: "A disgraceful and despicable candidate."....Gingrich on Romney: "Cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare."....Gingrich communications director Joe DeSantis on Romney: "Uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share of taxes."....Noam Sheiber on Romney: "Inherited all of his father's noblesse, but none of the oblige."....Gingrich on Romney: "Blatantly doesn't tell the truth."....Fred Thompson on Romney: "Unseemliness and overkill."....Newt Gingrich: "I give the Romney campaign due respect for their sheer volume of negativity."....Romney on Obama: "Has been a failure for the American people."....James Taranto on Obama: "Furious and divisive."....Santorum on Trump: "Does things for one reason and we all know what that reason is."....Maurice Sendak on Gingrich: "An idiot of great renown...There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him that it's hard to take him seriously."....Chris Wallace on GOP debates: "Stupid."....