David Gergen

I think we're probably seeing the obituary written tonight for universal access on health care. And it's been a dream of Democrats now for 70-plus years.

I think health care is very unlikely to pass in its current form.

Immigration reform, I think, is probably dead this year.

Regulatory reform is going to be very watered down.

If they take Paul's view -- and I very much respect Paul on this. He says they're not fighting hard enough; they've got to be combative and go out and fight. If that's your message I think they're going to make a mistake.

He has to get more of that populist feeling behind his own administration.

This is going to send a ripple effect through Republican politics too.

Health care is now in peril. Immigration reform, cap and trade, regulatory reform, all these big, major initiatives are in bigger trouble tonight than they have been.

Well, as a senior political analyst for CNN and as a former White House adviser, I have to tell you, I don't have a clue.

That lasted about five minutes, didn't it? ... But to believe that this is going to end the partisanship over this issue I think just doesn't recognize current political realities.

I think that there's a certain kind of disbelief or maybe cynicism on the part of the public. Now, after all, we've been hearing from the government that they're going to close these gaps now for over eight years.

Republicans believe deep in their bones that this would not have happened had it not been for a certain complacency or taking their -- people taking their eyes off the ball on terrorism.

I was told today that he was safe. That suggests that there may not be a lot of firings on this whole thing.

I think a number of people in Washington have been speculating Mr. Leiter, who runs the National Counterterrorism Center might well lose his job over this.

We need to get to the bottom of this. Perhaps a couple of heads should roll.

I think it's overblown.

Well, Barack Obama was smoldering today in ways we haven't...

I think you're going to see far more urgency now and far more seriousness and focus in the White House and then the administration on these kinds of threats.

I'd certainly give him high marks on the politics of this and political leadership. He sometimes led from behind, not out front. But Barack Obama has done something no other president has ever done. That is, he's gotten, you know…

The public has -- Barack Obama his highest marks are handling the foreign policy.

All this spending, the lack of discipline in Congress, the lack of discipline in Washington, in the face of these mounting deficits, could mean we pay a huge price just down the road in higher inflation and in real deterioration of…

It is important to remember that, when the president was taking office, his economic advisers told him that there was a one-in-three chance this country was going to have a Great Depression.

The public gives Barack Obama his highest marks on handling the foreign policy.

It's important to remember that when the president was taking office, his economic advisers told him that there was a one in three chance this country was going to have a Great Depression.

I would certainly give him high marks on the politics of this and political leadership. He sometimes led from behind, not out front. But Barack Obama has done something no other president has ever done. That is, he has gotten, you know…