Clinton–Lewinsky scandal

I did not have sexual relations with that woman —Bill Clinton

The Clinton–Lewinsky scandal was a U.S. political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The sexual relationship took place between 1995 and 1997 and came to light in 1998. Clinton ended a televised speech in late January 1998 with the statement that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky". Further investigation led to charges of perjury and to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was subsequently acquitted on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

Quotes

• I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
  • Bill Clinton, as quoted in "Bill Clinton 15 Years Ago: 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'" (25 January 2013), by Steven Nelson, U.S. News

• [I]f I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does.
  • Eminem, "Role Model", The Slim Shady LP (1999), California: Interscope Records

• You want me to fix up lyrics while the president gets his dick sucked?
  • Eminem, "Who Knew", The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), California: Interscope Records

• Unfortunately the media itself is often tempted to misuse power. I am not a fan of President Bill Clinton but I do sympathise with him. He only hugged Monica Lewinsky once, at least in public. He may have hugged her more times in private, that we don`t have any pictures of. But that one hug has prefaced every report on President Clinton whether the subject matter had anything to do with his single instance of discretion or not. If the CNN is to be believed Bill Clinton has hugged Monica a thousand times, twelve times a day ever since CNN resurrected that particular episode among the file pictures. With the passage of time the hug has improved in terms of clarity and vividness. There is no mistaking the look of adoration in Monica`s eyes and the body language of the President of the United States. The viewers, Americans and others must assume that the President must really know Monica intimately and all those stories about the phone- calls to the Senators even while he dallied with Monica must be the truth, the absolute truth and nothing but the truth. As I said I am not a fan of President Clinton but I do feel that that kind of presentation via television is not quite fair to the President. There is no one in the United States who has not seen it and been influenced by it. How can anyone sit in judgement over him without being biased, without preconception? How can the impeachment of the President be fair and just?
  • Speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at the opening of the Commonwealth Press Union Biennial Conference, Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, 26 October 1998 [1]

• Power corrupts, and, in many cases, absolute power makes you really horny. Clinton, Chirac, Mao, Mitterrand.
  • Donald Sutherland, "Letters from the Rose Garden" email to Gary Ross, 2011, included in the special features of The Hunger Games (2012)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Clinton–Lewinsky scandal on Wikipedia