On President Obama’s blaming the Bush administration for the deficit:

There is a statute of limitations on laying it all at the feet of your predecessor. It’s about one year. Time is up. At this point, it’s all whining.

On Obama’s and Robert Gibbs’s assurances that KSM will be convicted and executed:

What a great demonstration of the presumption of innocence.
I mean, if there is a rationale, and there isn’t, but if there were ever a rationale for having the KSM trial in New York in front of a civilian court, it was for America to demonstrate the rule of law and the majesty of our justice system.
And here you get the spokesman for the president of the United States saying on Sunday: The guy is going to be found guilty and executed. The president essentially saying the same. The attorney general has said essentially the same. It’s like in the westerns where they say: Let’s hang him but give him a fair trial first.
And you know, if you are going to have the president and high spokesmen in the administration speaking in this way ahead of a trial, it poisons the jury pool, meaning . . . the whole American population.
And a defense attorney is going to argue that this makes it inherently a trial that’s going to be unfair. So, if there were a rationale [for a civilian trial], it’s destroyed.
And, secondly, the issue is not the cost of what is happening in New York. You know, all of a sudden people are saying that we discovered that it’s going to be expensive if you have it in New York and it will shut down Manhattan. You really have to have a study? I could have told you that for nothing about six months ago.
The reason that Democrats are running away is not [discovering] the expense of the trial. It’s because of what happened in Massachusetts. It was seized upon by a Republican, this . . . lunacy in how you treat terror. Democrats are running scared because it’s going to be an issue in November.