John Stossel, Award-Winning News Correspondent and Co-Anchor of ABC News ‘20/20’, Setting the Record Straight on the So-Called Mortgage Crisis:

“[A]re we really experiencing a mortgage-default ‘crisis’? No.

“The Mortgage Bankers Association's 2007 fourth-quarter survey reports that foreclosures came to 2.04 percent of all mortgages. Many of those were speculators seeking flip profits rather than homeowners losing a dream house. During the quarter, only 0.83 percent of homes entered the foreclosure process. It may get worse — in March, ‘foreclosure filings, default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions rose 5 percent,’ Reuters reports. But let's keep things in perspective: Ninety-eight percent of borrowers are not in foreclosure. Only a small percentage of them are even late in payments.”

Michelle Malkin, Syndicated Columnist, Regarding Former President Jimmy Carter’s Self-Appointed Middle East Diplomatic Mission:

“So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick review:

“After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept Israel as a ‘neighbor next door,’ Carter's Hamas hug buddies flipped him the bird. They gladly accepted the diplomatic legitimacy Carter's visit conferred upon them, while clinging bitterly to their insistence on the destruction of the Jewish state.”

Robert D. Novak, Syndicated Columnist, On the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nomination Process:

“For the first time, Democratic loyalists not necessarily committed to Clinton are wondering whether the party's system for picking a nominee is the problem. If all caucuses were eliminated and only primaries used in picking nominees, Obama's lead of 130 in delegates would become an advantage for Clinton of 45 delegates. The bigger problem is proportional representation replacing the winner-take-all system that enabled Republicans to get their nominee on Feb. 5 Super Tuesday. Without the ‘reforms’ enacted by Democrats during the decade following the party's 1968 fiasco, Clinton might have clinched the nomination by now.”

This Week On the Trail:

“Hillary Clinton won a strong victory … in Pennsylvania. As expected, her voting coalition was quite similar to the one she had in Ohio and in previous non-southern contests. This is another sign that the basic demographic divide separating Obama and Clinton remains in place, some three and a half months after voting began.”

— Jay Cost, Real Clear Politics “Horse Race” Blog

“Clinton won six in 10 Democrats who had a gun in the home and nearly six in 10 weekly churchgoers.”

— David Paul Kuhn, Author, The Politico Senior Political Writer

“Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.

“But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.”

— Kenneth P. Vogel, The Politico

“Nothing in the hysteria over last week's Democratic debate – including the unprecedented opprobrium press critics heaped on the ABC moderators – should have come as any surprise. That doesn't make it any less fascinating a guide to current strange notions of what is and is not a substantive issue in a presidential contest, or any less striking an indicator of the delicate treatment Mr. Obama's media following have come to consider his just due.”

— Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member

“Mr. Obama is befuddled and angry about the national reaction to what are clearly accepted, even commonplace truths in San Francisco and Hyde Park. How could anyone take offense at the observation that people in small-town and rural American are ‘bitter’ and therefore ‘cling’ to their guns and their faith, as well as their xenophobia? Why would anyone raise questions about a public figure who, for only 20 years, attended a church and developed a close personal relationship with its preacher who says AIDS was created by our government as a genocidal tool to be used against people of color, who declared America's chickens came home to roost on 9/11, and wants God to damn America? Mr. Obama has a weakness among blue-collar working class voters for a reason.”

— Karl Rove, Former Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush and White House Deputy Chief of Staff

“Obama insists such gotcha politics is beneath our dignity. But no association is above question for a candidate, whether Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Illinois political fixer Tony Rezko, or Ayers and Dohrn.

“Clinton and Republican John McCain have suffered scrutiny. The only one treated as an infant in swaddling clothes by the national media — until quite recently — is Senator Change.”

— John Kass, Award-Winning Chicago Tribune Columnist

“The clamor for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the presidential race has reached new levels of intensity since the Pennsylvania primary. Of all the things Hillary has done, Obama supporters find her tendency to win large elections in swing states as by far the most irritating. If she beats him in Indiana, they’ll be surrounding her house with torches.”

— Gail Collins, The New York Times

“Run, Hillary, run. Run in Guam, run in North Carolina, run in Indiana. Run in each and every one of the nine contests that are left. Then make some states do their contests over.

“Should Barack Obama’s victory in Vermont really count? I don’t think Vermont is actually a state. I think it is technically a socialist republic. Have somebody check this out.

“And Obama’s victory in Alaska? Are you kidding me? They let caribou vote in Alaska.”

— Roger Simon, The Politico Chief Political Columnist

“On one hand, Obama pals around with terrorists. On the other hand, Hillary pals around with James Carville. Advantage: Obama.”

— Ann Coulter, Attorney, Legal Correspondent and Syndicated Columnist