Brent Bozell, Author, Syndicated Columnist, Founder and President, Media Research Center, On ABC’s “Prescription for America” Townhall on Healthcare — From the East Room of the White House:

“ABC News has abandoned all pretense of journalistic integrity in its bid to be the administration’s official salesman for ObamaCare. … this ‘news special’ becomes nothing more than an extended infomercial designed to scare and manipulate the American people into supporting a trillion-dollar government takeover of the highest quality health care system in the world.”

On the President’s Reported Remarks With Regard to End-of-Life Care:

“President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.”

— Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times

“But don't worry. A ‘panel of experts’ (Barney Frank and two executive vice-presidents from ACORN) will make that determination.

“So relax: You'll be able to ‘opt out’ of government health care, in a very permanent sense.”

— Mark Steyn, Author, Internationally Syndicated Columnist

The Editors, The Washington Times, Regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s Contention That Because of its Cholesterol-Lowering Claims, Cheerios Cereal is Actually a Drug:

“This is a prime example of the nanny state running amok. Only the government would work to classify a breakfast cereal as a drug for the offense of having correct information on its label.”

Lawrence Kudlow, Economist, Economic Commentator and Host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, On the Medically Uninsured:

“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, we don't have 47 million folks who are truly uninsured. When you take college students plus those earning $75,000 or more who choose not to sign up for a health care plan, roughly 20 million people are removed from the list of uninsured. After that, you can remove the 10 million who are not U.S. citizens and the 11 million who are eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid but for some reason have not signed up for those programs.

“That leaves just 10 million to 15 million people among the long-term uninsured.

“Yes, they need help. And yes, they should get it. But not with mandatory universal coverage or new government-backed insurance plans or massive tax increases. And certainly not with the Canadian-European-style nationalization that has always been the true goal of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.”

Regarding the Proposed “Overhaul” of the U.S. Healthcare System:

“Why does the president, who says that were America ‘starting from scratch’ he would favor a ‘single-payer’ — government-run — system, insist that health-care reform include a government insurance plan that competes with private insurers? The simplest answer is that such a plan will lead to a single-payer system.”

— George F. Will, Nationally Syndicated Columnist

“[T]o argue, as Mr. Obama does, that a government-run health-care plan can control costs better than a market-based system is a mistake. This argument is belied by Medicare's experience. A study published by the Pacific Research Institute finds that since 1970 Medicare's costs have risen 34% a year faster than the rest of health care.”

—  Karl Rove, Former White House Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff

“The pundits write about the popularity of Medicare. Of course it’s popular. People love getting free stuff. But Medicare is on an unsustainable path.It is more than 30 trillion dollars in the red! Now the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Obama administration’s health care proposal would increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion.”

— John Stossel, Award-Winning News Correspondent and Co-Anchor of ABC News ‘20/20’  

Supreme Court Associate Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Explaining the Role Affirmative Action Played in Her College Admissions:

“With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates.”

Tony Blankley, Author, Syndicated Columnist and Former Washington Times Editorial Page Editor, On the Popularity of the President’s Proposals:

“Though the president remains broadly admired, with his personal-approval polling numbers at about 60 percent, his policy proposals are becoming less popular with the public as they are emerging in more detail…”

Jill Lawrence, PoliticsDaily.com Columnist, Regarding a Democratic Strategy Memo on Selling “Climate Change” to Voters:

“Democrats like to talk about green jobs and cap-and-trade. A new strategy memo says they need to ditch those phrases, play down global warming and fight back on what their plans will cost Americans if they want to prevail in the high-stakes energy debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill.

“When voters hear ‘green jobs,’ they apparently think of recycling or making herbal soaps. Global warming is not one of their pressing concerns. And cap-and-trade … ‘pushes big negative buttons’ for them.”

On President Obama’s Stated Desire to Negotiate With Iran:

“Before June 12, Obama's eagerness to negotiate with [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad — ridiculed by his conservative critics — was hailed by the establishment and the left as proof of his high-minded faith in diplomacy, a healthy antidote to George W. Bush's allegedly close-minded approach. But now, if the clerical junta prevails, anyone who shakes hands with Ahmadinejad will have a hard time washing the blood off his own hands…

“Well, Bush is gone. Obama has extended his hand. And the regime is supplying fresh evidence of the absurdity of his approach. All that's left for Obama now is to abandon his own ideological rigidity and start over.”

— Jonah Goldberg, National Review OnLine Editor-at-Large

“[A]s the mullahs begin the long, drawn-out work of hunting down and doing away with dissidents in the wee hours of the night, how can an American president be seen with, talk to, or reach out toward a police state in the systematic process of state-sanctioned terror against its own?

— Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, California University Professor Emeritus and Nationally Syndicated Columnist

On Women’s Rights in Iran’s Election and the Killing of Neda Agha-Sultan:

“Women's rights were at the center of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's reform agenda. His wife, Zahra Rahnavard — in stark contrast to the nearly invisible wife of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — was front and center throughout the campaign urging a ‘religious democracy, which would allow young women of our time to thrive and flourish by providing them with security, freedom, and employment.’

“That message may have been the sniper's target. With his bullet, he delivered another: Women either will behave and follow the rules, or they will die. Whatever the shooter's true aim, the body he left in the street has become immortal in the story of Iran.

“Neda — the voice of freedom — can never be silenced now.”

— Kathleen Parker, Syndicated Columnist

“The regime may keep Ahmadinejad in power, but it cannot erase women's memories of Rahnavard's pledges or the video of Neda's murder. Nor can it overcome the women's vote without massive fraud that undermines its legitimacy. In this election, Iranian women have come into their own.”

— Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer