I love Sam. I respect him. I admire him. He's a total man of principle. I have really profited from his judgment. I think it was a matter of principle. It was so important to him. |
I think he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty by ... a wide range of people, |
I think it is fair to say that the Act has been a worthwhile experiment. Like most experiments that are professionally conducted, it has yielded significant results, ... The results, I believe, support this conclusion: Jurisdiction and authority over these cases ought to be returned to the Justice Department. And who will oversee them? The Congress, the press and the public. |
I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did. |
I totally disagree with that, ... That's an accusation... |
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed in this (Paula Jones) sexual harassment lawsuit, |
I was on the hot seat. |
I would say it is utterly incomplete and grossly misleading, |
I'm not going to be making any comment today. |
In late 1997, we considered whether this evidence justified a referral to Congress, ... We drafted a report. But we concluded that it would be inconsistent with the statutory standard because of the difficulty of establishing the truth with a sufficient degree of confidence. |
Isn't it odd the Secret Service is willing to testify if it helps a president because they won't be pushed farther away, but that if it's something that may hurt a president, they won't testify. |
It isn't in the interest of the First Amendment for distortions, lies about career civil servants to be spread about. We don't know who is spreading them about. But lies and distortions have no place in our First Amendment universe. |
It was fair and right to go to someone who is in the midst of a very serious thing, ... She was in the process of committing serious offenses. |
It was not our place to reinvent the investigative wheel, |
Major decisions during the Lewinsky investigation have not been easy. And given the hurricane force winds swirling about us, we were well aware that no matter what decision we made, criticism would come from somewhere. |