Analysis of Clinton's Speech
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"Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions both
public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight."
Here's what the president meant:
"It's not my fault, and here's why..."
"While my answers were legally accurate,"
"You're all too stupid to know what constitutes perjury anyway."
"I did not volunteer information."
"Because of my utter contempt for the whole judicial process."
"I say to you now: that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or destroy
evidence, or to take any other unlawful action."
"Like I said to you then: that I did not have sex with that woman, Miss
Lewinsky."
"I know that my public comments, and my silence about this matter, gave a false
impression."
"I lied."
"I misled people, including even my wife."
"I lied."
"I deeply regret that..."
"I got caught."
"I can only tell you I was motivated by many factors."
"Lust for power, lust for sex, lust for money, lust for fame, lust for..."
"I had real and serious concerns, about an independent counsel investigation that
began with private business dealings twenty years ago. Dealings, I might add, about which
an independent federal
agency found no evidence of any wrongdoing by me or my wife, over two years ago."
"I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything."
"The Independent Counsel investigation moved on to my staff and friends."
"I screwed up their lives, too."
"Now this matter is between me, the two people I love most..." "I must put
it right, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to do so."
"Except resign."
"It’s nobody’s business but ours."
"Butt-out!"
"And so tonight, I ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past
seven months..."
"Forget all this."
"to repair the fabric of our national discourse..."
"Quit picking on me."
"and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next
American century."
"Like, how I'm going to get hot babes when I'm a 60-Something has-been."