David Gergen actually said...

"It's much tougher to climb out now than it would have been six months -- had he done these changes, started changing things six months ago."

"But, you know, what we're facing, you know, this squeeze on Iran, because, as -- as -- as President Bush really pushes now hard on trying to get Iran to behave, Iran does hold the oil card."

"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."