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

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.

I have had a career in public service.

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.

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

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.