Scott McClellan: “The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal…”

You have a lot of good people that come there for the right reasons, to make a difference, but they get caught up in this permanent campaign culture, where it's all about manipulating the narrative to their advantage.

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.

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

It's too much about party and too little about the country. And we need to put the country first and put the party much lower.