Scott McClellan: “The economy is moving forward and we're not turning back.”

The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal government is the failsafe backstop to all that.

If the president is committed to embracing a high level of openness and honesty, then we can move Washington beyond this partisan warfare that has been so destructive.

Yes. No, I was sincere at the time. Now, looking back and reflecting on that, I have a different perspective on it.

I think it was smart to confront Saddam Hussein. But our options were either, Saddam comes clean or we go to war.