Brian Williams on Donald Trump: "Has driven well past the last exit to relevance."....E.J. Dionne, Jr. on GOP: "Determined to bring the Gilded Age back and undo the achievements of a century."....Rudy Giuliani on FEMA: "Has dropped the ball, certainly as big as they did with Katrina, maybe bigger."....Rush Limbaugh on Obama: "This guy is about revenge and vengeance."....James Taranto: "If Obama loses, the left will blame imaginary racists."....The Economist on Romney: "Has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says...There are a lot of Romneys and they have committed themselves to a lot of dangerous things."....'Runaway Slave' painter Jon McNaughton: "The Democratic Party has brought the demise of Black America."....Hunter at Daily Kos: "Hell's only news channel will consist of Allen West appearing on Fox & Friends, nonstop, for countless millennia."....

Biden on Romney GM ad: "Scurrilous...Flagrantly dishonest...An outrageous lie."....Michael Reagan on Obama: "Egocentric...Control freak."....Norm Onstein on Romney: "If you're looking for gold medals in terms of audacious lying, and adamant refusal to turn over personal information, nobody comes close."....David Axelrod on Romney: "The most secretive candidate we've seen probably since Richard Nixon."....Harvard economist Larry Summers on Romney budget plan: "Alchemy."....Robert Reich on Romney: "Wants to do everything he can to make the superwealthy even wealthier and the poor even poorer, and he justifies it all with a thinly veiled social Darwinism."....Michael "Heckuva Job Brownie" Brown on Obama: "One thing he's gonna be asked is, why did he jump on [Sandy] so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in...Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas?"....Barbara Walters on Donald Trump: "You're making a fool of yourself."....

Chris Christie on Obama: "Blindly walking around the White House looking for a clue."....Obama on Romney: "The 1980s are now calling and asking for their foreign policy back."....Romney ad on Obama: "Four more years of this? You've got to be kidding."....Matt Taibi on Romney-Ryan platform: "A fourth-rate parlor trick designed to paper over the real agenda -- cutting taxes even more for super-rich dickheads like Mitt Romney, and getting everyone else to pay the bill."....Biden on Romney: "What I can't understand is how he has gotten in this 1950s time warp."....Paul Krugman on Romney team: "Willfully, nakedly, distorting the record."....John Kerry on Romney: "Has changed his position on almost everything."....Gloria Steinem on Romney: "The most-destructive-to-equality candidate I've ever heard of."....Andrew Sullivan on Romney: "A fraud, a war-monger, a liar and a budget-buster."....Ann Coulter on Obama: "The retard."....Todd Akin spokesman Rick Tyler: "If Claire McKaskill were a dog, she'd be a Bullshitsu."....

Romney on Obama: "Has failed America's women."....Obama on Romney-Ryan: "Their ideas are old, and their ideas are bad."....Former NH Gov. John Sununu on Obama: "Not that bright."....Martin Bashir on Romney: "Lying on the facts and exploiting the dead."....Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson on Romney: "Wacky nuts...Without one molecule of brain."....Washington Times on WI Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin: "Consistently assaults our Judeo-Christian heritage...Barney Frank in a dress."....Keith Ablow of Fox News on Biden in debate: "Speaking as a psychiatrist...you have to put dementia on the differential diagnosis."....Jonathan Alter tweeting second debate: "Is it just me, or does Romney seem like an asshole tonight?"....Saudi Arabia government-printed eighth-grade textbook: "The Apes are the people of the Sabbath, the Jews; and the Swine are the infidels of the communion of Jesus, the Christians."....

Brit Hume on Biden: "Looked like a cranky old man."....Tom Giovanetti on Biden: "Came across as almost bipolar."....Dick Morris on Biden: "Windbag...Demagogue...Brawler...Far more likely to be a longshoreman than a president."....Joan Walsh: "[Biden] made Ryan look like he was trying out for the college debate team."....Richard Cohen on Ryan: "[Seemed like] one of those plastic guys with red ties and an updated version of Brylcreem...in his hair."....Kos on Ryan: "Roadkill."....Charles Pierce: "You know what's the difference between Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan? Lipstick."....Noam Scheiber on GOP: "Has completely lost its marbles, having turned into a collection of anti-tax jihadis bent on the upward redistribution of wealth."....Ralph Reed: "Our political system has been corrupted by Leftist politicians using your tax money to buy voters."....Spanish government official Jose Manuel Castelao Bragnano: "Laws are like women, they're there to be raped."....