David Gergen actually said...

"This administration is saying, we are not going to bargain with these people anymore. We're going to get tough."

"There was no way he could quite reach the summit with this speech. He couldn't please everyone. We're hearing a lot of nitpicking on aspects of the speech. But, overall, it was the most powerful and t..."

"He just simply, as a factual matter, acknowledged that we did intervene in Iran in the early '50s."

"If he can successfully withdraw from Iraq without Iraq falling apart, if he can demonstrate that we do not want bases in Iraq, if he can, in fact, help to build a nation state of some sort of stabilit..."