David Gergen actually said...

"I think that will help a lot. But I do think -- I hope, in the next segment, we can come back to understanding that there's a discourse, there's a conversation in the black community."

"I think two things can be said about -- in a positive way about Geraldine Ferraro. First, she has also said about herself that she would not have been the vice presidential candidate, had she not been..."

"If someone had said about Hillary Clinton, you know, 'If she weren't a woman, she wouldn't be here,' people in the Clinton camp would have clearly taken offense at that."

"It is intended. It's very clearly intended to diminish the candidacy of Barack Obama, and it was offensive because it was injecting race as a way to diminish him."