Scott McClellan

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

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

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.

I have had a career in public service.

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

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.

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

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

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.

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.