Politiquotes of the Week: Dec. 9

Obama gets feisty, GOP's infatuation, and more top quotes.

Barack Obama - "Ask Osama Bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement," said President Obama, responding to charges by Republicans that he is too conciliatory when dealing with matters of foreign policy. "Or whoever's left out there. Ask them about that." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "Ask Osama Bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement," said President Obama, responding to charges by Republicans that he is too conciliatory when dealing with matters of foreign policy. "Or whoever's left out there. Ask them about that." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jon Huntsman - “I’m not going to kiss [Donald Trump’s] ring and I’m not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy. If he had any courage at all, he would be running as a candidate for president as opposed to manipulating the process from the outside,” Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman told CNN, explaining why he won’t travel to New York to meet with Trump as other GOP candidates have or participate in the upcoming debate Trump plans to moderate.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Jon Huntsman - “I’m not going to kiss [Donald Trump’s] ring and I’m not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy. If he had any courage at all, he would be running as a candidate for president as opposed to manipulating the process from the outside,” Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman told CNN, explaining why he won’t travel to New York to meet with Trump as other GOP candidates have or participate in the upcoming debate Trump plans to moderate.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Newt Gingrich - Less than a week after officially entering the GOP presidential nominating race, former House speaker Newt Gingrich called President Obama the “most successful food stamp president” in the nation’s history.(Photo: John W. Adkisson/Getty Images)

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Newt Gingrich - “We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food stamp president in the American history in Barack Obama and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks,” said GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich. (Photo: John W. Adkisson/Getty Images)

Peter King - “[Gingrich] has great revolutionary skills. He is the guy that, you know, brought Congress back to Republicans after 40 years, but as a leader, he’s very ineffective and he’s undisciplined,” said Rep. Peter King (R-New York) on Imus in the Morning, adding, “Newt is Newt. You don’t change when you’re 68 years old.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Peter King - “[Gingrich] has great revolutionary skills. He is the guy that, you know, brought Congress back to Republicans after 40 years, but as a leader, he’s very ineffective and he’s undisciplined,” said Rep. Peter King (R-New York) on Imus in the Morning, adding, “Newt is Newt. You don’t change when you’re 68 years old.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ron Paul - "He's dictatorial, is what he is," said GOP presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul of President Obama’s use of executive orders to implement components of the American Jobs Act.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Ron Paul - “He’s the flavor of the week,” said Rep. Ron Paul of rival Newt Gingrich. “We don't know what will be next week.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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David Axelrod - "Almost all of [Mitt Romney’s] rhetoric was negative. And he executed very well. His aides all boasted about that in the newspaper about what a great negative campaign they ran against Gingrich down there in Florida. And he ground out a victory for himself. So it was a tactical victory. I'm not sure it added to his luster as a potential leader of the country," said President Obama’s senior campaign adviser David Axelrod.(Photo: Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)

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David Axelrod - "The Republican Party has split into two parties. You have got the Tea Party and the martini party," said David Axelrod, senior communications advisor to President Obama. "By orientation, Romney is more of the martini party set. He's spent the last six years banging on the door of the other group trying to win admission, abrogating one fundamental principle after another to try and prove his mettle to them. But they are just not buying."(Photo: Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)

Rod Blagojevich - “My life is in ruins,” said disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his sentencing trial for 18 counts of corruption.(Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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Rod Blagojevich - “My life is in ruins,” said disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich at his sentencing trial for 18 counts of corruption.(Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

David Letterman - "Hey, it's Conrad Murray. 14 years? I didn't get that for murder," said comedian David Letterman listing the top ten messages left on Rod Blagojevich’s answering machine after his sentencing.(Photo: CBS/John P. Filo/Landov)

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David Letterman - "Hey, it's Conrad Murray. 14 years? I didn't get that for murder," said comedian David Letterman listing the top ten messages left on Rod Blagojevich’s answering machine after his sentencing.(Photo: CBS/John P. Filo/Landov)