David Gergen actually said...

"I think we have -- we are quietly more confident about who we are in our military. We have the best trained military in the world. The morale in our current military is very high, and we don't feel th..."

"It's a vanity project. It's a vanity project. You know, and this was being done essentially to please one man."

"It's very rich for this White House to be talking about the erratic behavior of John Brennan and about his, quote, wild outbursts. It's just unbelievable that they choose those rationale."

"I think the real issue here is whether the President is going to knock over all these norms."