In questioning at a lecture in the U.K. on March 31, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: “that she knew the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors–thousands of them, I’m sure’ in Iraq. …the next day she tried to spin her way out. ‘I meant it figuratively, not literally, all right?’ she told reporters. ‘Let me be very clear about that. I wasn’t sitting around counting.’ ”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Pages 284-285