Political Quotes

David Gergen: I think tonight much more than in the past Barack Obama owns the economy, for example. And he's now being held…

On the recordNovember 2, 2009
I think tonight much more than in the past Barack Obama owns the economy, for example. And he's now being held responsible for the jobs question.
Said by
David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Gergen discusses how President Obama is being held accountable for economic issues.

Share

More from David Gergen

Dec 17, 2020

President of United States has not had a security briefing, or security briefing since October 2nd. I've never heard of any president, under any circumstances, come anywhere close to that, and been so derelict of the duty.

transcripts.cnn.com
Jan 12, 2023

It's very, very big. Not legally, but politically, it's a very, very big deal.

transcripts.cnn.com
Dec 29, 2022

But I think, to go to David Urban's point, what was she calling about? Well, she was calling, she testified, because she thought there was fraud that had been committed, and had not yet been explored, and that it ought to be studied before…

transcripts.cnn.com
Jul 1, 2021

I think what we're seeing is the Aguero story just underscores how vital it is that we have a National Commission to investigate what happened on January 6th, and we cleared the air on it.

transcripts.cnn.com

Other voices in this conversation