Scott McClellan

“All I can say is what I believe.”

“The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.”

“If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.”

“I'm a centrist.”

“The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.”

“I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.”

“In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'”

“I have had a career in public service.”

“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

“My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.”

“As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.”

“I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.”

“I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.”

“I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.”

“A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.”

“The Iraq war was not necessary.”

“I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.”

“I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.”

“When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.”

“I'm glad to share my views.”