David Gergen actually said...

"I think he stated his values very well."

"They ought to be working night and day to make sure we don't go over the debt limit."

"It may wrap himself in the deficit commission. He may wrap himself in the gang of six, anything but being bold and concrete, which I think is what is needed now."

"It is. You know, as David Walker would say, the -- what we were doing last week was paying the bar bills on the Titanic. And now in the coming weeks we're going to fight over the Titanic itself. And I..."