David Gergen actually said...

"This is just a continuation of the lack of responsibility that serious people and serious positions of power, that's what is so -- you know, I don't think the day is far off, frankly, when the Italian..."

"The role of the president is first and foremost to protect the citizenry and I think that's where he's got to step up."

"I think they are allowing cuts to go on and that is painful. That's what irresponsible."

"It's hard to get change in Washington and you said he has a quote 'a contracted sense of possibility.'"