"Anderson, I have too much respect for Josh Bolten to believe that this is his plan."
"And it's just not responsive to the real issues of the day. I mean, what's the heart of this plan? Scaring people about Iran, putting a lot more troops on the borders with big badges, as they say, and..."
"Whether it, in fact, satisfies the public I think is a whole different question. It's very late in the game, I think too late."
"We really ought to be looking at nuclear."
"But, on energy, there's no excuse, none, for the Democrats not to have a comprehensive plan they can get behind."
"That's very dangerous for Republicans this November."
"I believe that this president ought to be looking at a serious new plan, which says: Look, I can't bring prices down in the -- in the -- in the near term, but I sure as heck am not going to be willing..."
"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."