David Gergen actually said...

"We can't let the extremists take over the argument."

"I did not think he offered a lot of alternatives, nor did I think he truly had heard the voices of a Rosaleen or of an Andy when he sort of lumps people together who are opposing this as extremists."

"I do think that the imam is a very well-respected man, and the fact that the State Department supported him; he was carefully checked out before they sent him abroad to represent the United States."

"It seems to me that we might be able to work out some resolution where the imam would join up with a Christian leader and a Jewish leader and figure out how to make this a true interfaith center."