Scott McClellan: “You need to be willing to adjust and adapt to circumstances on the ground in terms of reconstruction and in terms of the…”

The world is better off and America is more secure because Saddam Hussein was removed from power.

Unfortunately, I think too many people today do look at Washington and say, 'All they're giving us is spin and manipulation, and they're not working together to get things done.'

I think he believes that. He's convinced himself to believe that, but I don't think it's true.

The national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.