David Gergen actually said...

"He needs to take charge, not by spending the summer worrying about who is going to be his vice president, but laying out a clear framework for what his presidency would be about."

"Given a landscape that is so heavily tilted against the Republicans, John McCain is doing remarkably well in these national surveys."

"One of the reasons that the oil prices spiked, as they did today, by $12, driving down the stock market, was a remark by the transportation minister of Israel saying war with Iran was inevitable."

"I also felt that, even though she got off to a very bad start in the campaign... she became the fighter."