David Gergen

The landscape is the most favorable to the Democrats since 1964 when Lyndon Johnson won by a huge landslide.

Yes, and I think this whole idea of having petitions and making this a big public push on him puts him in a really awkward position.

I think he now needs to engage in serious conversation within his own team and with her about whether this is a workable idea or not. I think he needs her a lot more now than he did six weeks ago.

If I were sitting in the White House, worried about what Jay Rockefeller may say, I -- and Scott McClellan came out with this book on the edge of that, I might want to carpet bomb Scott McClellan to -- to drown him out and make it appear…

If there is outright lying, and if the country was led into war by outright lying, then, somebody has an obligation to blow the whistle on that.

It does seem to me that there are ethical obligations to get the truth out. And over time you do want a historical record about an administration to be right.

If I were sitting in the White House worrying about what Jay Rockefeller may say and Scott McClellan came out with this book on the edge of that, I might want to carpet bomb Scott McClellan to drown him out.

It's unusually intense, Anderson, and it does raise the question of why. Because you know, often when you're in the White House in this situation and what you do, if you don't say anything at all, you just sort of hope it goes away.

It's unusually intense, Anderson. And it does raise the question of why, because, you know, often, when you're in the White House in this situation, if you don't say anything at all, you just sort of hope it goes away.

Unless -- unless the Democrats have a death wish, they'd better reach a compromise this weekend and they'd better do it with a minimum of rancor and a maximum of statesmanship.

It's also partly about trying to frame the race and trying to give -- to begin to introduce what is this race all about.

I think what we're seeing is a slowly unfolding coronation. Each day, it becomes more and more clear he's going to become the candidate.

I think it's -- it's one more step in the endgame that we're in right now. And she clearly knows that this is almost over, and she's shifted her tone since November.

To joke about guns and Barack Obama is the single most tasteless thing one can do in American politics.

If George W. Bush were on the ticket today, he would go down in a landslide.

We need a speech with as much precision from Barack Obama, sooner rather than later.

But overall, that was an admirable speech. It really was one of the few times we've had a presidential candidate early in a campaign try to draw together the main strands of what his presidency would be like and try to weave it together.

They can take him on on the issues. And they can take him on about who has the best chance to win.

I don't think they have it. They would have played that card by now.

I think people around him think he will need a food taster if he does that.

John McCain is putting in the building blocks of a fall campaign.

I think he now has the luxury of starting to look past Hillary Clinton. If there is this sense of inevitability now, the aura of inevitability that hung around her very early in this campaign has now moved to him.

Whoever loses do so graciously.

Hillary Clinton was very positive today. She didn't go after Barack Obama personally.

A quarter of the people who were supporting each candidate are saying, if my candidate doesn't win, I'm either going to sit out or vote for John McCain.