The Best 200 Zippergate
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"Words at great moments of history are deeds."
C. Attlee's tribute to Churchill's
wartime statements
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Sex
"Look, this guy's got a problem with sex,
O.K.?"
a Presidential advisor.
"She seems to have won him over simply by flashing
the straps of her thong underwear... When she began the affair, she was
apparently so needy she was willing to have sex in a bathroom with a man
who took calls during their liaisons and did not get around to having an
extended conversation with her until after they had sex a half dozen times."
M. Henneberger in the NYTimes
"After the election I've tried to shut my
body down, sexually I mean.... But sometimes I slipped up and with this
girl I just slipped up." Clinton to D. Morris
"Putting a willing female in front of Clinton
is like putting a Big Mac on his plate.... he can't resist either..." HobieDog
"You can close the door. She'll be here
for awhile." Clinton to Lewis Clark, uniformed Secret Service officer posted
outside the Oval Office
"I almost lost the bet. It was 9 minutes
and 40 seconds before he came down for that appointment." S. Pape,
uniformed Secret Service guard on a bet he made with a new officer that
Clinton would leave the White House residence for the Oval Office within
10 minutes after admitting Monica Lewinsky even though Clinton was not
customarily in the office early Saturday morning.
Clinton and Lewinsky were alone in the Oval
Office area at least 21 times, 11 of which included sexual activity, had
more than 50 telephone conversations (including 15 "phone sex" calls),
Lewinsky gave Clinton approximately 40 gifts, he gave her approximately
24, mostly cast-off gifts that had been given to him.
"The American people expect a measure of self-discipline
and dignity from Presidents while in office." NYTimes
"Never vote for a candidate who has a full-time
person in charge of bimbo- eruptions." Hobiedog
"Bill is the most sex-crazed man I've ever
known. His tastes in sex are incredibly varied to the point of being
kinky. In any case he never seemed to get enough -- which was usually
fine by me." Gennifer Flowers
The President told Lewinsky he had had hundreds
of affairs, but since turning 40, he had tried to be faithful to his wife.
When M. Lewinsky told Clinton about the affidavit
she would be signing which falsely stated there were other people present
on all of the occasions she saw the President, and asked if he wanted to
see it, he said he didn't have to see it "as he had already seen about
fifteen others."
"He finds anybody attractive. I guarantee
you that given the opportunity, he he'd let anyone perform sex on him."
M. Lewinsky
"Bill also had a thing for phone sex.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he calls one of those sex phone line
numbers when live bodies are in short supply." G. Flowers
Clinton suspected a foreign embassy was tapping
his telephones and he proposed if asked about their phone sex calls she
should say it was just "a put-on."
"What has emerged
is a man with what would appear to be an almost psychotic inability to
control his zipper." G. Greig in the London Sunday Times.
"I was a fat boy and the girls hated me."
B. Clinton
"He's remedying an early deficit in female
attention. Like all childhood deficits, it can never be made up."
Ben Stein
"Every day can't be sunshine." Clinton
to Monica when she complained she had not had hugs for months
"There is not even a sentence when the President
sounds kind, wise, or even older than his panting paramour." Mary
McGrory
"I don't know, I might be alone in 3 years."
Clinton's response to Monica when she asked if he might have more time
for her in the future.
"Wouldn't it be great if we could spend time
in the country and take long walks together? One of these days I
know we are going to do that." Clinton to G. Flowers
"I just knew he was in love with me."
M. Lewinsky
"Monica Lewinsky came on to me and
made a sexual demand on me." Clinton also said he "rebuffed" her,
but she would claim an affair with him to erase her reputation in the White
House as a "stalker."
"There was no authorized effort." White
House Counsel Charles Ruff responding to Rep Lindsey Graham's question
whether there was an "organized effort" at the White House to depict Lewinsky
as a sexual predator.
"She was always very friendly." Clinton about
Kathleen Willey
"I now find it completely plausible that she
herself smeared her lipstick, untucked her blouse, etc." Mysterious
talking points offered by Lewinsky to Tripp to change her story about Kathleen
Willey.
"Drag a hundred dollars through a trailer
park and there's no telling what you'd find." Attributed to James
Carville about Paula Jones.
"You were always there when she was there,
right? We were never really alone." "You could see and hear everything....
Monica came on to me, and I never touched her, right?'" She wanted to have
sex with me and I can't do that." Clinton's "questions" to his Secretary,
Betty Currie
"Nuts and sluts." The slang term for
the strategy set up in 1991 to use investigators to gather incriminating
information on women who might allege an affair with Clinton.
"They're gonna try to goad people up, you
know. But if everybody kinda hangs tough, they're just not going
to do anything. They can't.... They can't run a story like this unless
somebody said: 'Yeah, I did it with him....' I'll tell you what, it would
be extremely valuable .... just to have, as I told you before when I called
you, is to have an on-file affidavit explaining that, you know, you were
approached by a Republican and asked to do that." Clinton on tape
with G. Flowers
When Lewinsky questioned him about Kathleen
Willey, Clinton responded that the harassment allegation was "ludicrous"
because he "would never approach a small breasted woman."
Lewinsky had an incentive to lie even to her
friends because "otherwise she would be acknowledging an unreciprocated
sexual relationship." Richard Davis, defending Clinton at the House
Hearing.
One White House aide called reporters to offer
information about Monica Lewinsky's past, her weight problems and what
they said was her nickname, "The Stalker."
"Senior White House advisors have offered
as a possible explanation for the extraordinary attention that Ms. Lewinsky
received from the White House that the president might have sent 'ambiguous
signals' that Ms. Lewinsky interpreted as affection." NYTimes, 2/18/98
"Oath against oath." Clinton supporters
argued the perjury case was fatally flawed because there were only two
witnesses to the sexual acts, Clinton and Lewinsky, and it would be "inherently
impossible for a jury to determine who was telling the truth."
"Even if he did what he is alleged to
have done, what's the big deal?"
Betty Friedan, lobbying for Clinton
Nice Girls Do: And Now You Can Too,
Best-selling book by Dr. Kassorla, a psychologist ("Shrink to the Stars")
M. Lewinsky started seeing in 1992 after she began crying inconsolably
when someone darted into a parking space she had spent 15 minutes waiting
for.
"Tillie, a man is a man is a man." Geraldine
Ferraro lobbying for Clinton with Rep. Tillie Fowler
"Commentators might not puzzle over the president's
favorable ratings, especially among women, if they understood the common-sense
guideline to sexual behavior that came out of the women's movement 30 years
ago: No means no; yes means yes.... The truth is that even if the
allegations are true, the president is not guilty of sexual harassment...
but rather seems to have made a clumsy pass, then accepted rejection."
Gloria Steinem on Clinton's alleged behavior toward Paula Jones and Kathleen
Willey.
"Republicans have old fashioned
extramarital affairs with other adults."
Bill Kristol
Rep. Hyde admitted to "youthful indiscretions"
with a woman more than 30 years ago when both were married and Hyde was
41 years old.
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger
"I think any man in business would be foolish
too fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody' else's secretary,
fine." Barry Goldwater
"I don't know a single head of state who hasn't
yielded to some kind of carnal temptation, large or small. That in
itself is reason to govern." Francois Mitterrand.
"As long as I'm not found with a dead girl
or live boy, I'm ok." Former Gov. E. Edwards
"Is an intern really capable of informed
consent
to a relationship with a President?"
"The other thing we have to do is take seriously
the role in this problem of ... older men who prey on underage women....
There are consequences to decisions and ... one way or another people always
wind up being held accountable." B. Clinton 6/13/96 endorsing a national
effort against teen pregnancy, U.S.News & World Report
Kate Millett argued in 1970 that sexual relationships
should not be "personal" or "private" because sex inevitably reflects power
relationships that need to be scrutinized and publicity debated.
"I am not a close personal friend of the President
in any sense of the phrase." Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls
"A habitual weakness for casual affairs is
not like a weakness for chocolate. Womanizing degrades and objectifies
women in general and can be hurtful and humiliating to one woman in particular....
For positions involving moral leadership, these questions are relevant."
Deborah Rhode
Bad thought tend to drive out good thoughts,
and sexual thoughts tend to drive out all other thoughts entirely; and
kinky sex acts are likely to be remembered more than conventional ones
because unusual acts defy euphemism and thus cannot be discussed in any
decorous way. William Miller
"The claim that 'mere sex doesn't matter'
backfires on itself: if it did not matter, then he would have admitted
to such an irrelevant thing from the outset instead of throwing a blanket
of denial and distraction over the nation for more than half a year.
His message as a result of this was less that 'sex doesn't matter' than
'truth doesn't matter.'" G. Wills
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