No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.