MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

- Howard Wolfson, on more debates: "Sen. Obama had a bad debate the last debate. And as a result he decided, "You know, I'm going to take my marbles, I'm going to go home, I don't want to do this anymore.' Well, you know what, it's important for a presidential candidate to be able to debate well...

"So we said, "Ok, Sen. Obama you didn't like the questions; the questions were too tough or what have you. Fine. Let's get rid of the people who are asking the questions.' Let's just have Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, mano a mano, on the stage together, Lincoln-Douglas style. It's the 150 anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. It would be great. Everybody thinks it would be great."

"We'd have a huge audience. There's enormous interest in this. So, Barack Obama, if you're listening, let's do it. It'll be fun, it'll be informative. It'll be important for the American people, a good discussion of the issues, no difficult questions from moderators. Just real issues."

On the popular vote: "More Democrats have voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for Barack Obama in this primary contest. Over 2 million Democrats came in Florida and Michigan. You know some people can pretend that 2 million votes don't count. That's usually what Republicans try to do. We're Democrats, we believe we want to count every vote. Right now, we've got more votes than Sen. Obama."

On Michigan and Florida: "There's going to be a challenge pending to the DNC's refusal to sit the delegations from Michigan and Florida...They're going to be a lot of ways superdelegates decide who is going to be the best candidate. And certainly the popular vote, the fact that Sen. Clinton has got more votes of Democrats, and Independents, and Republicans in this primary contest will be one of the things they look at."

On the fact that Obama wasn't on the Michigan ballot: "Let's be clear about this: Barack Obama made a decision to take himself off the ballot in Michigan because he knew we were going to beat him...We made the decision to stay, as did Chris Dodd, and people [who] came out and voted for us ought to have their votes counted."

- Howard Dean, on the RNC claiming the new DNC anti-McCain ad is illegal: "Sure, now it's a violation of federal election law to tell the truth...John McCain wants to stay in Iraq 100 years. Now he's said maybe like South Korea, maybe it wouldn't be a combat role. Well there's two points about that. First, it seems to me that anybody who thinks we're going to be occupying Iraq for 100 years and not be the victim of suicide bombers and militia attacks is not thinking clearly. And secondly we don't want to be in Iraq for 100 years for any reason. We need that money here at home."

On his call for superdelegates to decide in June: "What I'm concerned about is disunity in the party. Look, John McCain is not a strong candidate. He's wrong on Iraq, as far as the American public is concerned. He's wrong on health care. He blames the mortgage owners for their problems instead of the mortgage lenders ... This is not a guy who's in touch with where most Americans are...

"The problem is the only thing that can beat us is ourselves. The only thing that can beat us is if we're not unified, and it's going to take some time after a very spirited campaign to bring the party together again."

- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, responding to Dean: "Well, he sounds a little discouraged. But the good news is that John McCain is exactly the right kind of candidate....And he's not talking about staying there for 100 years. I think anybody who heard the totality and context of the quote understands that he's talking about making sure we come when it's right; that we establish a government that is strong, that is solid, that respects democracy, gives the people of Iraq the opportunity to govern themselves...

"You know whenever you see one of these sort of cut-and-paste ads be a little suspicious, because when you have to do that in order to try to communicate something's wrong."

Fox News' "Fox and Friends"

Crist, on being VP: "What's important for me is to help Sen. McCain as much as I possibly can."

NBC's "The Today Show"

- In an interview, Howard Dean tried to avoid making any comments about the Democratic race, focusing all his firepower on McCain. "McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years...he thinks we ought not to have health care for our kids."

Asked whether he thought race has played a factor in Obama's recent struggles, Dean said, "I'm not totally convinced it is a key element." Dean said his job is to make sure the eventual loser doesn't feel like they've been slighted. "My job is to uphold the rules... Someone is going to lose with 49%."

(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Update.)