David Gergen actually said...

"We need better people to go into the SEC. We've denigrated government jobs so much we don't have the kind of talented people that once went in there."

"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."