David Gergen actually said...

"The president promised us for every $1 of tax increases, he would put on the table $2.50 of spending decreases."

"I think the prospects are strong that we're going to go over the cliff. They're high because of the differences are so big."

"We have got to find what are ways that we can all agree on that will help us through that? I would worry a lot if we spent the next three or four days of a time of semi-crisis for the country getting ..."

"The fact is that it's being painted as a party that is too extreme, too far to the right. It's got to get back into -- I think for its own sake it needs to listen to more of the right of center and no..."