Scott McClellan: “This is my honest perspective on how things went off track. And that's all I can do is honestly and forthrightly express…”

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.

I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessarily to my past work. That's a loyalty to the truth.

When I found out I had been knowingly lied to by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame leak episode and passed along false information based on their assurances two years prior to that saying that they weren't involved.

We do not negotiate with terrorists.