Quotes of the Week

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax…[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Mitt Romney, speaking on a video from a Florida fundraiser obtained by Mother Jones

It gives me the sense that he is cynical or completely tone deaf.

Texas-based political strategist Mark McKinnon to Current TV on Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comment

Satan runs across the world with his doubt and with his untruths and what have you, and one of the untruths out there that is driven is that people of faith should not be involved in the public arena.

Gov. Rick Perry during a conference call with conservative Christians on Tuesday

And so those of us who have said yes, we're going to support him as the lesser of two evils, but at the same time, we're making very clear that we're doing so realizing Mormonism is not Christianity.

Rev. Robert Jeffress of Dallas, quoted from an address to other pastors in the San Antonio Express-News on Mitt Romney

The inability of so many political leaders today to step outside their ideological cocoons or offend their most partisan supporters has become the real threat to America’s future.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, quoted by The Hill