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Clinton Quotes - Actual & Scary Scandal Excuses
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign." - Bill Clinton in 1974
"The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic." - Bill Clinton
"Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances." - Bill Clinton
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign." - Bill Clinton running for US Representative in 1974
Is that the stupid quote of the century or what?
"No question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI is an impeachable offense." - Bill Clinton, 1974 quoted in the Arkansas Gazette
He should sak himself about this one.
"I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work." - Bill Clinton commenting on the Lewinsky scandal
And what impulses are those Mr. President?
"For four years we've been cooperating exhaustively" - Bill Clinton
Sure, like getting the billing records on time and complying with all the requests of the investigation.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" - Bill Clinton
Only Flowers then? (I apologize for the repeat)
"I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself." - Mike McCurry explaining how the president defines improper in 'improper relation'
At least it is not "I don't remember." Still wrong though.
"I don't remember"- Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and numerous others
"I'm sorry. I don't recall" - Hillary Clinton on numerous occasions
"It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything" - Bill Clinton
Only those billing records
"I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple." - Algore
"$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington." - Bill Clinton
We can start by putting the Lincoln Bedroom for sale!
"He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened." - Patricia Schroeder
Maybe you should use better phrasing next time, Mrs. Schroeder
"Seeing the interview was even more compelling than seeing the words on paper. I have to say she has a great deal of credibility'' - Patricia Ireland commenting on the Kathleen Willey '60 Mintutes' interview
Hear that! The leader of NOW believes Kathleen Willey. I wonder if she still believes Clinton.
"Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already." - Mike McCurry
"For anybody willing to find it, and write about it, and explain it, is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President." - Hillary Clinton
Hillary, he admitted it. Does that look like a conspiracy? He admitted it.
"An innocent bureaucratic snafu" - Bill Clinton attempting to explain what 900 GOP FBI files were doing in the White House
"When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one." - Bill Clinton
I guess in Clinton's case it is not possible to remember any of them
The Lewinsky matter "constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable" - Bill Clinton
What happened to "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."?
"I misled people, including even my wife" - Bill Clinton explaining the Lewinsky scandal. Clinton revealed the relationship to Hillary only days before testifying.
Word of advice: look out for flying lamps and furniture in the White House!
"I was also very concerned about protecting my family" - Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky address
Translation: "I had to do it to protect Chelsea from embarassment"
"In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago" - Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky adress
Translation: "Ken Starr made me do it"
"It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives" - Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky address
Would illegally requesting 900 private Republican FBI files be "prying" or would firing travel office employees on false charges be "personal destruction" Mr. Clinton?
"It depends on what the meaning of the word is is. If the...if he...if is means is and never has been, that is not - that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"
And IS that IS now or IS recently or IS today or IS tommorow....?
"I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her." - Bill Clinton under oath in the Paula Jones deposition.
If that IS not perjury then what IS perjury?
"Feb. 9, 1999
Dear Friend,
Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996.
And to win in 2000, I need you by my side."
- Vice President Al Gore
This from a letter sent out by his 2000 campaign to Johnny Chung, the former DNC fundraiser and felon who plead guilty to funneling thousands in illegal contributions from communist China to the Bill Clinton campaign in 1996. As reported in the April 3, 1999 Los Angeles Times
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