Newt Gingrich on Ryan proposals: “Right-wing social engineering.”….Ryan on Gingrich: “With allies like that, who needs the Left?”….Quin Hillyer on Gingrich: “Absolutely idiotic politically…horribly wrong philosophically.”….Eugene Robinson on GOP presidential debate: “Brought to mind the famous bar scene from ‘Star Wars.’”….Rep. David Schweikert on Geithner: “Acting like his hair is on fire.”….Alan Simpson on AARP: “Thirty-eight million people bound together by love of airline discounts.” ….Ted Rall on Obama: “Our Jack Ruby.”….Gingrich on Obama: “The most successful food stamp president in modern American history."….Alex Parene on Trump presidential campaign: “An unamusing joke.”….Trump on Nene: “You're a quitter. And Star Jones kicked your ass.”….

Colin Powell on bin Laden: “The worst person on earth.”….CIA director Leon Panetta on Pakistan: “Involved or incompetent.”….George Will on Obama Libya policy: “A half-baked doctrine…a quarter-baked rationalization…and an unworthy national agenda.”….Jerry Seinfeld: “If God gave comedians the power to invent people, the first person we would invent is Donald Trump.”….

NY Daily News on bin Laden: “Rot in hell.”….Washington Post: “Son of a bitch.”….NY Post: “Bastard.”….Rush Limbaugh: “Have you seen the picture of these clowns in the Situation Room from Sunday?...The smallest guy in the room is Obama.”….Rep. Allen West: “If you support Medicare the way it is now, you can kiss the United States of America goodbye.”….Julian Assange on Facebook: “The most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.”….Orly Taitz on Obama long form birth certificate: “Very inventive computer art.”….Morrissey on Royal Family: “Benefit scroungers, nothing else.”….Glenn Beck on Glee: “A horror show…A nightmare.”….

John Avlon on Trump: “The political equivalent of lighting a house on fire, calling 911 and then expecting a medal.”….Jeffrey Goldberg on birthers: “The idiot-American community.”….Tony Harnden on Trump: “Brash, egotistical, big-mouthed weirdo.”….Ruth Marcus on Trump: “Time to look past the birther nonsense he has been spouting to consider the rest of the nonsense he has been spouting.”….James Fallows on press handling of Trump: “Acting as the megaphone for this carnival barker.”….Robert De Niro on Trump: “It’s like a big hustle. It’s like being a car salesman.”….Trump on De Niro: “Not the brightest bulb on the planet. We’re not dealing with Albert Einstein.”….James Taranto on NYT The Ethicist column: “Like Dear Abby, only pretentious.”….Glenn Beck on new passport form: “Why don’t you just put nipple clamps on Americans?”….Steve Singiser on Atlas Shrugged: “The mother of all tank jobs.”….

Donald Trump: “The world laughs at us. They won't be laughing if I'm president."….Club for Growth president Chris Chocola: “Trump for President? You’ve got to be joking.”….Karl Rove: “A joke candidate."….Charles Krauthammer: "A clown.”….David Brooks: “Many people regard Trump as a joke.”….CNN anchor Carol Costello: “A joke.”….Ex-wife Marla Maples: “An ego-driven attention addict unfit to run for president.”….Andrew Leonard: “A crazed loon…For Trump, every day isn’t just ‘morning in America’ – it’s morning in America on a private jet with a hot babe bringing you a mimosa while you fly to Palm Beach for the unveiling of a statue of yourself.”….