Politiquotes of the Week: May 16

After same-sex marriage, attention is back on the economy.

- President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are back in their debate on the economy and who is best positioned to fix it. This week the pair also introduced dueling messages in videos about Romney’s tenure as head of Bain Capital and whether the private equity firm helped or harmed communities when it took over businesses. – Joyce Jones(Photos: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst; Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)

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- President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are back in their debate on the economy and who is best positioned to fix it. This week the pair also introduced dueling messages in videos about Romney’s tenure as head of Bain Capital and whether the private equity firm helped or harmed communities when it took over businesses. – Joyce Jones(Photos: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst; Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "What's also is going to make this a very close race is the fact that you've got special interests and these Super PACs that are spending money on negative ads in unprecedented ways,” President Obama told supporters at a fundraiser in New York. “And their message is going to be very simple: 'You know what? You're frustrated, you're dissatisfied and it's Obama's fault.' ”(Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "What's also is going to make this a very close race is the fact that you've got special interests and these Super PACs that are spending money on negative ads in unprecedented ways,” President Obama told supporters at a fundraiser in New York. “And their message is going to be very simple: 'You know what? You're frustrated, you're dissatisfied and it's Obama's fault.' ”(Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney - “A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation, and every day we fail to act that fire gets closer to the homes and children we love," Mitt Romney said during an economic speech delivered in Iowa. (Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Mitt Romney - “A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation, and every day we fail to act that fire gets closer to the homes and children we love," Mitt Romney said during an economic speech delivered in Iowa. (Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Reince Priebus - There’s no reason to expect anything different if he by some miracle were elected to a second term,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in a conference call with reporters. Obama “has a love affair with the sound of his own voice,” but “he doesn’t have a love affair with following through with promises.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Reince Priebus - There’s no reason to expect anything different if he by some miracle were elected to a second term,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in a conference call with reporters. Obama “has a love affair with the sound of his own voice,” but “he doesn’t have a love affair with following through with promises.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Patrick Buchanan - “I think that Joe Biden basically dragged Barack Obama out of the closet,” said conservative author and commentator Patrick Buchanan in a Fox News interview. “I think the president has put his presidency at risk because this is an emotional, cultural, moral issue. And when folks go to the polls the overwhelmingly majority already in 30 states have imposed a ban on homosexual marriage.”(Photo: Courtesy Fox News)

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Patrick Buchanan - “I think that Joe Biden basically dragged Barack Obama out of the closet,” said conservative author and commentator Patrick Buchanan in a Fox News interview. “I think the president has put his presidency at risk because this is an emotional, cultural, moral issue. And when folks go to the polls the overwhelmingly majority already in 30 states have imposed a ban on homosexual marriage.”(Photo: Courtesy Fox News)

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Jack Cobb - “It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us,” Jack Cobb (right), a laid-off GST steelworker, says in an Obama campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney’s business record and the impact his company had on local economies and workers’ wallets.(Photo: Courtesy Obama For America)

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Jack Cobb - “It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us,” Jack Cobb (right), a laid-off GST steelworker, says in an Obama campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney’s business record and the impact his company had on local economies and workers’ wallets.(Photo: Courtesy Obama For America)

Steel Dynamics - "SDI almost never got started," says a worker in a video ad countering the Obama campaign’s GST ad. "When others shied away, Mitt Romney's private sector leadership team stepped in."(Photo: Courtesy Romney For President)

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Steel Dynamics - "SDI almost never got started," says a worker in a video ad countering the Obama campaign’s GST ad. "When others shied away, Mitt Romney's private sector leadership team stepped in."(Photo: Courtesy Romney For President)

Ann Romney - “I think she's lovely," Ann Romney said in a Fox News interview about Michelle Obama, whom she hopes to replace as first lady.(Photo: REUTERS/Benjamin Myers)

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Ann Romney - “I think she's lovely," Ann Romney said in a Fox News interview about Michelle Obama, whom she hopes to replace as first lady.(Photo: REUTERS/Benjamin Myers)

Bobby Jindal - “President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected president of the United States. Never ran a state, never ran a business, never ran a lemonade stand. This job’s too important for on-the-job training,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in an interview on Fox News’ America's Newsroom.(Photo: Courtesy Fox News)

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Bobby Jindal - “President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected president of the United States. Never ran a state, never ran a business, never ran a lemonade stand. This job’s too important for on-the-job training,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in an interview on Fox News’ America's Newsroom.(Photo: Courtesy Fox News)

George W. Bush - “I’m for Mitt Romney,” former President George W. Bush told ABC News in a somewhat tepid endorsement.(Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

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George W. Bush - “I’m for Mitt Romney,” former President George W. Bush told ABC News in a somewhat tepid endorsement.(Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

James Lipton - “Mr. Romney is too busy working to share anything – like the vaudevillian tapping so desperately that he’s covered with what performers call ‘flop sweat.’ In rehearsal, I once heard a director say to an overeager actor, ‘Relax, you’ve got the job.’ Now that Mr. Romney seems to have wrapped up the nomination, that counsel may apply here,” said Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton in a New York magazine article offering advice to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney about how to act human. (Photo: Courtesy New York Magazine)

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James Lipton - “Mr. Romney is too busy working to share anything – like the vaudevillian tapping so desperately that he’s covered with what performers call ‘flop sweat.’ In rehearsal, I once heard a director say to an overeager actor, ‘Relax, you’ve got the job.’ Now that Mr. Romney seems to have wrapped up the nomination, that counsel may apply here,” said Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton in a New York magazine article offering advice to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney about how to act human. (Photo: Courtesy New York Magazine)