Scott McClellan
Scott McClellan
Scott McClellanis a former White House Press Secretaryfor President George W. Bush, and author of a controversial No. 1 New York Times bestseller about the Bush Administration titled What Happened. He replaced Ari Fleischer as press secretary in July 2003 and served until May 10, 2006. McClellan was the longest serving press secretary under George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1968
CountryUnited States of America
philosophy believe governing
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
jobs president done
I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
careers public-service
I have had a career in public service.
campaigns deceptive permanent
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
wife support looks
My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.
white house rooms
As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
new-orleans texas people
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.
mom pages paper
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.
mistake thinking order
Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.
blow safe-haven iraq
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
views differences enemy
There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.
want
Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?
war opportunity greatness
As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
team texas iraq
As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.