I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.
Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
I believe executive privilege should protect the President's conversations with key aides ... but on substantive matters of concern I do not believe executive privilege ought to exist.
I didn’t e-mail during my Presidency because I was afraid of the Freedom of Information Requests.
The press conference is as much a White House fixture as the cabinet meeting.
You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues.
My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.
I don't get into conversations or information about anything that the president does with his personal attorney.
There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
