David Gergen actually said...

"If you spend a lot of money, as this administration wants to do, and as the Bush administration did, that combination of spending is going to force taxes to go up eventually."

"I think to raise taxes now, first of all, would be bad economics, with a recession still under way and high unemployment. But, secondly, I think the political price of doing that now would be just hor..."

"No president has ever gotten it to a vote on the House or the Senate. And President Obama is about to get there."

"But if you're President Obama tonight, you can at least say this. We -- this country, under a variety of presidents, went back to the 1940s, have been trying to have national health care passed."