It was my job to articulate the administration policy,

I was not formulating policy. I was articulating and defending the [Reagan] administration's position,

Countries legislate out creativity.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy

He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.

The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.