Fox News's "Fox and Friends"

Former Pres. Clinton adviser Dick Morris, on dream ticket: "Hillary is Obama's VP? I wouldn't sell him life insurance." Is she angling for something?: "Yes, she is. ... I mean, she'd like to be on the ticket, but [Obama's] not nuts -- he's not going to put her on. You can't have a competitor as your vice president. It doesn't work. But I do think that what she is looking for is to defeat Obama. I think she is running now to demonstrate to white middle-class, working-class Americans that Obama is estranged from them, that others of them don't like Obama. And she wants to defeat Obama so McCain wins and she can run in 2012."

Morris, on Bush's comment in Israel: "It was a brilliant move because Obama is just so far off base on this thing about negotiating with Iran. It's the wrong policy. ... Because the way to stop Iran from going nuclear is to get rid of that regime, and the way to do that is to stress to the people of Iran how isolated they are globally." About Bush airing domestic laundry overseas: "It's scarcely dirty, domestic laundry. He's there to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary. And he's addressing the country that wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map... It's politically brilliant because Obama is so inexperienced and has such a poor reputation in terms of being tough on issues like this." On whether McCain was okay with the comment: "My guess is the McCain camp prompted it, because I think it's just the kind of move that McCain needs to put on."

John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., on some members of Bush's cabinet advocating talking to leaders: "My only problem with the President's speech is that he needs to talk to some people in his cabinet because they're doing -- or have advocated -- what the Democrats are doing. The fact is it's the policy of negotiation that's been tried with Iran and North Korea, and it's failing. ... This is a defining issue for how the American people want their foreign policy conducted." On why the State Department supposedly is acting against Bush's declared foreign policy strategy: "I think there's a phenomenon that happens to political appointees at the State Department that they get captured by the bureaucracy. I certainly predicted Secretary Rice would not follow that pattern, but sadly, she has. And that's why so many of the policies we're pursuing run contrary to the President's stated national security policy."

Fred Thompson, on McCain winning over conservatives: "John is very solid on the things that are most important to the future of this country. And I consider that to be national security. ... He is solid on the appointment of federal judges, which I think is the second most important thing the President does and will do." On McCain saying the environment was his No. 1 issue: "I didn't hear the 'number one' part. I'm sure if you asked him, he would not place that above national security. ... But he feels strongly about that, as he does some other things. ... If you want the perfect candidate, I'm sorry, he's no longer around." [he says this smiling, speaking of himself, of course]

MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Sen. Joe Biden: "It's absolutely outrageous. I can't think of a single President of the United States -- and I've worked with seven of them -- who's used a forum abroad to use such an incendiary attack on a political opponent at home. ... Here's the point, it seriously weakens us around the world. Imagine what they're thinking of in the capitals from Paris to Tokyo. No wonder this administration is held in such low regard in terms of its ability to lead the world."

Pat Buchanan: "You never attack an American party candidate from a foreign podium, from the Knesset. Secondly, that Hitler analogy is over the top. ... I think this is going to be a horrendous, major issue. But there's no doubt about it, the Knesset came to their feet, cheering. Bush was playing the role, 'I'm the defender of Israel.' ... This is a wounding comment. McCain backed up the president 100%. ... I think the American people don't like the Bush foreign policy. They don't like the economic policy. And the Bush people and the McCain people are well aware of that. So what they do is you move it over to: Who's the stronger defender of Israel?" On this argument helping Obama politically: "Sure, he's going to get enormous press coverage of what he's going to say. He's head-to-head with the President of the United States. The loser here is Hillary Rodham Clinton...She's cut out completely."

Jonathan Alter, on Chris Matthews giving a history lesson about Neville Chamberlain to a "Hardball" guest (radio talk show host Kevin James) last night: "What's going to be needed here is some kind of history lesson for the public. And Chris Matthews started it yesterday when he blew that blowhard out of the water. This clown didn't know what he was talking about. And I think Chris put it exactly right, which is to say that the problem with Chamberlain was not that he went to Munich and met with Hitler, it was that he gave away Czechoslovakia when he got there. In other words, it's not talking that's appeasement, it's giving stuff away...or otherwise making major concessions."

Here is video of the Matthews-James encounter from last night.