David Gergen actually said...

"I think they are allowing cuts to go on and that is painful. That's what irresponsible."

"The role of the president is first and foremost to protect the citizenry and I think that's where he's got to step up."

"It's hard to get change in Washington and you said he has a quote 'a contracted sense of possibility.'"

"I think there is growing evidence that this White House is looking very closely at 2014 in a variety of ways."