Top 40 Scott McClellan Quotes
#2. It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
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#3. When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.
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#4. Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.
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#5. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.
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#6. Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.
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#8. I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.
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#14. The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.
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#18. I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.
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#19. As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.
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#20. In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
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#21. 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.
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#22. My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.
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#23. Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.
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#24. The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
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#25. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
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#26. 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.
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#27. If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
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#30. I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
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#31. 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.
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#33. I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.
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#36. I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
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#37. The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
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#39. We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.
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#40. 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.
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