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It was a sluggish response, almost a White House in slow motion. Americans expect not only to see their president on the scene, but a firm hand on the tiller. That wasn't there. There was nobody in charge. - David Gergen Quotes

It was a sluggish response, almost a White House in slow motion. Americans expect not only to see their president on the scene, but a firm hand on the tiller. That wasn't there. There was nobody in charge.

I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency, so that if there are more explosions in the next few months ... his approval ratings will suffer some more. - David Gergen Quotes

I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency, so that if there are more explosions in the next few months ... his approval ratings will suffer some more.

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle. - David Gergen Quotes

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Larry is a friend and I believe in the vision of renewal that he set forth for the university. He recognized that it was almost impossible to move things forward. - David Gergen Quotes

Larry is a friend and I believe in the vision of renewal that he set forth for the university. He recognized that it was almost impossible to move things forward.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. - David Gergen Quotes

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

I'm told by some people close to him that this will not be a Kerry-bashing speech. But he's not going to simply rally around Bush. Indeed it's going to be the story of an immigrant coming to this country and finding a country that's embraced him and a party that's embraced him. - David Gergen Quotes

I'm told by some people close to him that this will not be a Kerry-bashing speech. But he's not going to simply rally around Bush. Indeed it's going to be the story of an immigrant coming to this country and finding a country that's embraced him and a party that's embraced him.

This story's going to have legs if somebody gets indicted. I think the president has to lance the boil directly?. It starts with facing reality, accepting your share of responsibility without blinking. - David Gergen Quotes

This story's going to have legs if somebody gets indicted. I think the president has to lance the boil directly?. It starts with facing reality, accepting your share of responsibility without blinking.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. - David Gergen Quotes

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

If Karl Rove were indicted, that would be like George W. Bush losing his right arm at a time when he needs every limb he's got to climb out of the hole he's in and to rebuild his presidency. - David Gergen Quotes

If Karl Rove were indicted, that would be like George W. Bush losing his right arm at a time when he needs every limb he's got to climb out of the hole he's in and to rebuild his presidency.

This series is an opportunity to listen to stories and strategies of the global greats of social entrepreneurship -- a powerful new form of public leadership. - David Gergen Quotes

This series is an opportunity to listen to stories and strategies of the global greats of social entrepreneurship -- a powerful new form of public leadership.

I still think this president would be served by having someone fresh come in. It would be a matter of making room at the table. - David Gergen Quotes

I still think this president would be served by having someone fresh come in. It would be a matter of making room at the table.

If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president. - David Gergen Quotes

If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. - David Gergen Quotes

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold. - David Gergen Quotes

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing. - David Gergen Quotes

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. - David Gergen Quotes

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? - David Gergen Quotes

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just inevitable that this is going to continue to hang over their heads because the investigation continues. The Libby-Rove-Cheney story continues to have legs, and it's going to continue to for some time. And the war still goes on. - David Gergen Quotes

There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just inevitable that this is going to continue to hang over their heads because the investigation continues. The Libby-Rove-Cheney story continues to have legs, and it's going to continue to for some time. And the war still goes on.

Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside. - David Gergen Quotes

Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside.

For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck. - David Gergen Quotes

For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck.

I don't think there's any other president in the modern era that has seen this kind of stability. - David Gergen Quotes

I don't think there's any other president in the modern era that has seen this kind of stability.

Changing the subject will not work. Giving more speeches about Iraq or the state of the economy doesn't have the weight that action does?. It's dangerous for the country to have a disabled president for three years, and we're getting close to seeing that happen. I worry that they [Bush and his aides] are in denial. - David Gergen Quotes

Changing the subject will not work. Giving more speeches about Iraq or the state of the economy doesn't have the weight that action does?. It's dangerous for the country to have a disabled president for three years, and we're getting close to seeing that happen. I worry that they [Bush and his aides] are in denial.

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it. - David Gergen Quotes

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.

I think he has to calibrate it very carefully. The White House says it is going to be a very optimistic speech. But I think people are not feeling very optimistic at the moment. - David Gergen Quotes

I think he has to calibrate it very carefully. The White House says it is going to be a very optimistic speech. But I think people are not feeling very optimistic at the moment.

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up Ã¢â¬Â¦ was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president. - David Gergen Quotes

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up Ã¢â¬Â¦ was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president.

It's devastating that the president would ask no questions. If he sat there mum in a full briefing ... that will only confirm the suspicions of a lot of opponents. - David Gergen Quotes

It's devastating that the president would ask no questions. If he sat there mum in a full briefing ... that will only confirm the suspicions of a lot of opponents.

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What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has. - David Gergen Quotes

What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has.

You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative than he was, but if you add it all up, I believe he ranked as the best leader we've had in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, and that's saying a lot. - David Gergen Quotes

You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative than he was, but if you add it all up, I believe he ranked as the best leader we've had in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, and that's saying a lot.

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration. - David Gergen Quotes

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration.

It's clear they are bringing in someone to do better marketing. Whether they are bringing in someone to bring more complete information to the public is very much an open question. - David Gergen Quotes

It's clear they are bringing in someone to do better marketing. Whether they are bringing in someone to bring more complete information to the public is very much an open question.

He (Rove) is the president's right arm, as we all know. And the president's in a deep hole and it's very hard to climb out of a hole without your right arm. - David Gergen Quotes

He (Rove) is the president's right arm, as we all know. And the president's in a deep hole and it's very hard to climb out of a hole without your right arm.

Why a White House that was so adept in most of the first term has misjudged two or three big calls in its second term it's puzzling. - David Gergen Quotes

Why a White House that was so adept in most of the first term has misjudged two or three big calls in its second term it's puzzling.

There's a tendency after you win your second term to think you're invulnerable. You're not just king of the mountain, you've mastered the mountain. That can often lead to mistakes of excessive pride. - David Gergen Quotes

There's a tendency after you win your second term to think you're invulnerable. You're not just king of the mountain, you've mastered the mountain. That can often lead to mistakes of excessive pride.

There has been this legitimate concern that he has been isolated. It is a smart move on his part to do this. Presidents in the past have frequently called in the old guard. He gets the benefit of hearing different views and is seen as getting out the bubble. - David Gergen Quotes

There has been this legitimate concern that he has been isolated. It is a smart move on his part to do this. Presidents in the past have frequently called in the old guard. He gets the benefit of hearing different views and is seen as getting out the bubble.

A man never benefits from going to a psychiatrist if the only reason he's there is because of his wife. You have to want to change from within. - David Gergen Quotes

A man never benefits from going to a psychiatrist if the only reason he's there is because of his wife. You have to want to change from within.

On 9/11, we were attacked by an enemy?. But there's no foreign enemy here. There's nobody to blame. - David Gergen Quotes

On 9/11, we were attacked by an enemy?. But there's no foreign enemy here. There's nobody to blame.

There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke. - David Gergen Quotes

There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.

Don't just listen to the lawyers. You know in your heart it's time to get this behind you, avoid the nightmare of more proceedings up on the Hill. - David Gergen Quotes

Don't just listen to the lawyers. You know in your heart it's time to get this behind you, avoid the nightmare of more proceedings up on the Hill.

It's as if he's trying to have it both ways. - David Gergen Quotes

It's as if he's trying to have it both ways.

I think he still has time to recover politically, and I think it's likely he will. He's good at this. You'll see a better Bush during the next few days, in charge and compassionate. But if he doesn't, there's going to be a serious political price to pay. - David Gergen Quotes

I think he still has time to recover politically, and I think it's likely he will. He's good at this. You'll see a better Bush during the next few days, in charge and compassionate. But if he doesn't, there's going to be a serious political price to pay.

You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. - David Gergen Quotes

You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism.

He didn't call for a lot of new things on the domestic front. He had a lot of rhetoric, but the proposals were quite modest. And on the foreign policy front, he didn't break a lot of new ground. - David Gergen Quotes

He didn't call for a lot of new things on the domestic front. He had a lot of rhetoric, but the proposals were quite modest. And on the foreign policy front, he didn't break a lot of new ground.

Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out. - David Gergen Quotes

Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out.

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president. - David Gergen Quotes

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president.

This is the first administration that I can remember, including Nixon's, that said we need to think about a law that would put journalists who print national security things up in front of grand juries and put them in jail if they don't reveal their sources. - David Gergen Quotes

This is the first administration that I can remember, including Nixon's, that said we need to think about a law that would put journalists who print national security things up in front of grand juries and put them in jail if they don't reveal their sources.

That would give you protection against Democratic attacks and restore bipartisan spirit. - David Gergen Quotes

That would give you protection against Democratic attacks and restore bipartisan spirit.

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