David Gergen actually said...

"They're fine for packaging the message, but there's got to be something inside the box."

"If you're a senator you represent a whole state and you have many more conflicting voices."

"I think you have good news for the president in the poll, but on exactly the point you cite, sending troops to the border, especially on the path to citizenship which is so contentious in his own part..."

"Well, I think it was the only issue in which he could score a victory immediately."