David Gergen

With the leadership of President Obama, both the House and the Senate are now moving forward with legislation to vastly expand the size of Americorps.

The Obama administration needs a team of managers led by people like Jack Welch to make sure this money in the stimulus is spent wisely and quickly.

If he has to come back to Congress to ask more money for banks, more money for AIG, he's going to -- even a new stimulus package, Son of Stimulus.

With the leadership of President Obama, both the house and senate are moving forward with a legislation to vastly expand the size of Americorps.

The Obama administration needs a team of managers led by people like Jack Welsh to make sure this money in the stimulus is spent wisely and quickly.

It hasn't derailed his message yet... But it could jeopardize his program.

He's playing defense, Anderson, because a lot of small-business people, you know, pay taxes as high-income taxpayers.

I think today he's -- I think he was walking a tight rope and I think it was very difficult for him.

I think he did it smartly.

I think President Obama did a good thing, a smart thing today in reaching out to the business community because we've been talking about this alienation with the business community; reaching out and assuring them that he's a free market…

I think that he has been -- had been -- sent a very encouraging signal to minorities, to blacks and to Hispanics, and I think that helps to bolster these numbers.

There is a lot of confusion now about what the administration strategy is.

There are a lot of people like me who wonder, is this really going to do much good, the first one?

To get along, go along. And I'm afraid that's what happened today.

This only emphasizes that -- Joe Johns is right -- there is a lot of confusion now about the administration strategy.

I think the son of stimulus is on its way, and it's going to be here sooner than we think.

I think the Senate stimulus is on its way and it's going to be here sooner than we think.

I admire the president for his ambitions and his desire to fix health care system and energy and climate change.

The public is very much with the president. But I think David Walker would agree that there is an erosion of confidence in the business community right now.

That was one of the dumbest things I have seen a party chairman do in a while.

What they must do now is go -- this often happens after a party has taken a real drubbing in the elections.

What we have not heard from the Republicans is a coherent policy response to the Obama agenda.

He does give voice to a lot of discontented, often populist kind of conservatives.

I think a lot of us have appreciated how bold he is. And certainly the country is behind him for health care reform and energy reform. But I think the question is arising, given the global nature of this and how complex it is, whether he…

President Obama threw down the gauntlet and he rally said we're no longer going down the conservative path, we're going to go down a much more progressive or liberal path.