-Caveat Lector-
Yeah right. Don't let the screen door hit you
on the way out... On the other hand, maybe we can save
your ass by sending you to to the Holy Land, just in
time for Christmas. What a shell game...
December 11, 1998 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT 4:10 P.M. EST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release December 11, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
The Rose Garden
4:10 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: As anyone close to me knows, for months I have been
grappling with how best to reconcile myself to the American people, to
acknowledge my own wrongdoing and still to maintain my focus on the work
of the presidency.
Others are presenting my defense on the facts, the law, and the
Constitution. Nothing I can say now can add to that. What I want the
American people to know, what I want the Congress to know is that I am
profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds. I never
should have misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family.
Quite simply, I gave into my shame.
I have been condemned by my accusers with harsh words. And while it's
hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben
Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show
us our faults.
Mere words cannot fully express the profound remorse I feel for what our
country is going through, and for what members of both parties in
Congress are now forced to deal with.
These past months have been a tortuous process of coming to terms with
what I did. I understand that accountability demands consequences, and
I'm prepared to accept them. Painful though the condemnation of the
Congress would be, it would pale in comparison to the consequences of
the pain I have caused my family. There is no greater agony.
Like anyone who honestly faces the shame of wrongful conduct, I would
give anything to go back and undo what I did. But one of the painful
truths I have to live with is the reality that that is simply not
possible. An old and dear friend of mine recently sent me the wisdom of
a poet, who wrote, "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
Nor all your piety, nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line.
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it."
So nothing-not piety, nor tears, nor wit, nor torment-can alter what I
have done. I must make my peace with that. I must also be at peace with
the fact that the public consequences of my actions are in the hands of
the American people and their representatives in the Congress. Should
they determine that my errors of word and deed require their rebuke and
censure, I am ready to accept that.
Meanwhile, I will continue to do all I can to reclaim the trust of the
American people and to serve them well. We must all return to the work,
the vital work, of strengthening our nation for the new century. Our
country has wonderful opportunities and daunting challenges ahead. I
intend to seize those opportunities and meet those challenges with all
the energy and ability, and strength God has given me.
That is simply all I can do-the work of the American people.
Thank you very much.
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