New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton:

"I don’t know him so I don’t have any personal assessment of him.  You know, I mean it seems odd to me to write a book about three years of a job you did basically trying to disclaim any responsibility for what you did, and I don’t think that it comes as a surprise that George Bush and his team misled America.  It's tragic to hear the details about it, but I don’t think it's particularly newsworthy and what I hope is that the press and the public and the political class will be much more vigorous and skeptical than everybody was and everyone in his or her way you know basically let the administration get away with it and they got away with it, they got re-elected and here we are and now all the books have come out and unfortunately there are a lot of people in a position that know a lot more than most of us who went along and acquiesced and I find that very sad."

Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama:

"I haven't read it. I don’t think the subject is particularly surprising. I think many of us have been troubled by the lack of straightforwardness out of this administration. The only news is that somebody within the administration is confirming what a lot of us thought for some time."

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain:

"I have no information of that fact (whether President Bush lied). I am glad for one that Saddam Hussein is no longer there. Every intelligence agency in the world believed that there were, that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. It's also very clear that I strongly opposed the failed strategy after visiting Iraq on several occasions and opposed the strategy that was failing and not succeeding in Iraq. But I can only, I have not seen the book or know the comments. But I know why I supported it, because I believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as did every intelligence agency in the world in every assessment. And the sanctions were breaking down. That there was a huge scandal called Oil-for-Food in the United Nations, and he had used weapons of mass destruction on at least two separate occasions in the past. So I was not working in the White House. I'd tried to be working in the White House. But I had not succeeded. So I don't know, and I have not read the book so I cannot make an additional comment."