David Gergen actually said...

"Well, on the face of it, it would appear Joe Biden, you know, didn't -- is not inheriting the Earth here and is -- but my bet is, Anderson, there are so many problems in the world, it's just inevitabl..."

"What he can't do, of course, is make policy and that really is up the president today, George W. Bush."

"He's putting heavy weights in place. I'm not sure that would been the case, had there been a more complacent view towards what he was facing."

"He has to send a message publicly to terrorists in India and elsewhere that just as George W. Bush has been tough on terrorism, he will be do."