Scott McClellan Quotes

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• I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House…
• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.
• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this…
• I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
• I'm glad to share my views.
• The Iraq war was not necessary.
• Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
• My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.
• We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis…
• Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And…
• There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to…
• In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
• I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
• All I can say is what I believe.
• When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and…
• If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
• The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
• The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's standpoint when it comes to issues of life.

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