David Gergen actually said...

"It's rare that they do dig themselves out. We ought to understand that, once you get down this far, as Jimmy Carter learned, as -- as -- as George H.W. Bush learned, when he started crashing, and he c..."

"There were a lot of us who believed that, argued that. And we were -- you know, we were cavalierly dismissed: Oh, that's a stupid idea."

"Seventy-one percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country."

"They have had an energy bill, you know, but it hasn't -- it wasn't a really serious energy bill. It wasn't a forward-looking energy bill."