David Gergen actually said...

"I think in the next few years we're going to be spending a lot of time, Ali, not only worried about how do we restore ourselves internally. But this question of America within the world is also very i..."

"It's now apparent that this is going to be -- we're back to, maybe not politics as usual. We have still got a lot of partisanship in Washington."

"The sense of euphoria that the country had just after the inauguration that a new day has arrived evaporated yesterday with this vote."

"It's important to remember that Bill Clinton when he was president -- and Paul Begala will remember this -- he didn't get a single Republican vote on his budget plan in the beginning."