Scott McClellan: “The delivery of those government services and benefits to the people who have been affected, that's a high priority for…”

History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided, the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder.

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

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.

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.