Breyer said. ''Here I can be more normal. |
. . . All of us who worked to support peace in Northern Ireland owe her our gratitude. |
. . . the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people. |
...If we had a serious disciplined effort to apply on a large- scale, existing clean energy and energy conservation technologies - -we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets easily in a way that would strengthen, not weaken, our economy. |
[As the crowd burst into chants of] U.S.A., U.S.A., ... to helping people rebuild their lives, rebuild their communities ... and then to helping Kosovo and all the countries of the region build a brighter, more prosperous future based on respect for the human rights of all people. |
[Both are using legalisms to defend themselves. Gingrich says] I did not intend to mislead the committee. ... In the areas where we had more direct control, our campaign and the legal defense fund, as far as I know, the proper Decisions were made, because the proper scrutiny was applied. The Democratic Party case, they've already admitted they did not apply the proper review. |
[But by 2004, after two White House terms, Clinton had grown candid about his own non-service (as well as that of other prominent American politicians):] In the Vietnam era, ... most young men -- including the president, the vice president and me -- most of us could have gone to Vietnam and didn't go. And John Kerry said, 'Send me.' |
[Describing Parks as] one of America's great heroines, ... Rosa Parks was a woman of great courage, grace and dignity. Her refusal to be treated as a second class citizen on a Montgomery bus in 1955 struck a blow to racial segregation. |
[First, Monica.] What I had done with Monica Lewinsky was immoral and foolish, ... I was deeply ashamed of it and I didn't want it to come out. In the deposition, I was trying to protect my family and myself from my selfish stupidity. I believed that the contorted definition of 'sexual relation' enabled me to do so. |
[Gingrich says,] I was overconfident, and in some ways, naive. ... American people ought to feel good about me. They spent $30 million or something, and there's been not a single, solitary shred of evidence of any wrongdoing on my part. I feel good about it. |
[He was one of us, it became apparent, in another special way, too, the classic sixties child in love with, addicted to, the pleasures provided him by his penis, which he called] Willard. ... Dick, you kept me from being the President of the United States. |
[Moulton's boss in 1999-2000 was one of the Clinton administration's most politically astute economists: Under Secretary of Commerce Rob Shapiro, a pioneer] New Democrat ... Did you cook the books? |
[Rove said,] Governor Bush has been very private about this, ... drama lasting weeks and weeks and weeks. |
[So you had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs saying,] This is all you could really do. ... OK, that's all I want to try. I don't want to risk American lives; I don't want to put American forces into Afghanistan. |
[The president says donors got nothing they shouldn't.] What they get from me, I think, is a respectful hearing if they have some concern about issues, ... I think it's a good thing when contributors care about the country and have some particular area of expertise they want to contribute. But nobody buys a guaranteed result. |