From Friday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the protests in Syria:

What’s so surprising is you actually have crowds, courageous protesters, in Daraa, in the southern areas of Syria, come out in the street, it’s reported today, in the tens of thousands. And the authorities are just shooting people in the streets. When you talk about levels of repression, this is a very early use of live weaponry against protesters.
This is Syria. You got to remember the Assads have been in power for 40 years. In 1982, the father had a protest, an uprising in a town called Hama, [and] killed 20,000 people in a week. This is who they are. And that’s why there’s been so little protest.
I’m actually shocked it’s happening given the price [of] protest in Syria. And I’m also shocked by the weakness of the American response. We had the secretary of defense saying — I was in [Egypt] and I think the Syrians ought to take a lesson from how the Egyptian army handled it. What we ought to be doing is denouncing this regime for shooting its people in the street — a regime that funneled thousands of terrorists into Iraq who killed Americans in the Iraq war, destabilizes the pro-western regime in Lebanon, destabilizes Jordan and Egypt, and supplies Hezbollah with tens of thousands of rockets.
An enemy regime that could be in jeopardy — we ought to be stepping up our rhetoric, we should have a strong statement, at least, from the president, at least denouncing them the way he denounced the repression — which was a lot less — in Egypt.

On Obama’s encouragement of Brazilian oil exploration and pledge that the US would be a customer:

We have a perennial, recurring problem in the country. Every few years you get a spike in the price of oil — it strangles our economy, it enriches the likes of Hugo Chavez and other unfriendlies. And we have two answers in the country:
The Republicans say: Drill, baby, drill.
And Democrats say: Drill in Brazil.
I like Brazil, it’s a nice place for drilling. But why not in the Gulf? Why not off the east coast? Why not in ANWR? Why not off Alaska?