Monica Lewinsky Quotes

I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.

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I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.

I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft.

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word ...

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have ... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Online we have a compassion deficit

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

I was brought up with lies all the time ... that's how you got along ... I have lied my entire life ...

It was a mutual relationship.

People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

Do you want me to answer that?

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.