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Notable Quotes and Predictions: February 15 - 28
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March 15 - 31
March 1 - 14
Feb. 1 - 14
Jan. 21 - 31
Saturday, Feb. 28
Quote of the Day:
"Mrs. Hardin adamantly and unequivocally states that she has never met Mr. Starr, that she has never spoken to him in person or by telephone, and that she has never had any kind of relationship with him whatsoever."
Tom Mars, an attorney for Jane Hunt Hardin and her husband, on unsubstantiated rumors that Mars believes have been spread by White House officials
(The Washington Post, "Starr Subpoenas Tabloids Private Investigators")
Friday, Feb. 27
Quotes of the Day:
"I'm just so [expletive] jealous of Sidney, I don't know where to turn. How come Sidney got this? He's having the time of his life. ... I fantasize about them coming to my office and carting the boxes away."
James Carville, a former political consultant for President Clinton, practically begging for a subpoena
(The Washington Post's Reliable Source, Feb. 27, "James Carville, Just Itchin' for a Subpoena" )
"If they think they have intimidated me, they have failed. And if any journalist here, or elsewhere, wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you."
White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, following federal grand jury testimony
(The Washington Post, "Blumenthal Testifies of Talking to Reporters")
Thursday, Feb. 26
Quotes of the Day:
"I don't think Monica Lewinsky did anything wrong. . . . She aligned herself with a powerful man. Most women in the world should align themselves with a powerful man. In the real world, unless you get the hierarchy -- and they're all men -- behind you, you aren't going to get very far."
Rosalie Osias, a New York lawyer who offered $10,000 to start a legal defense fund for Lewinsky
(The Washington Post, "Prosecutor Decries 'Avalanche of Lies' ")
"It's certainly under consideration."
William Ginsburg, asked if his client, Monica Lewinsky, would sue Linda Tripp for making secret tapes of their conversations
(The Washington Post, "Prosecutor Decries 'Avalanche of Lies' ")
Wednesday, Feb. 25
Quotes of the Day:
"This smacks of Gestapo. ... This outstrips McCarthyism. ... Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze."
Harold Ickes, former White House adviser, commenting on Kenneth Starr's investigating White House contacts with reporters
(The Associated Press, "Report: President May Claim Executive Privilege")
"[We have] received repeated press inquiries indicating that misinformation is being spread about personnel involved in this investigation . . . We are using traditional and appropriate techniques to find out who is responsible and whether their actions are intended to intimidate prosecutors and investigators, impede the work of the grand jury or otherwise obstruct justice."
Kenneth Starr, independent counsel, in response to Ickes's comment
(The Associated Press, "Report: President May Claim Executive Privilege")
Tuesday, Feb. 24
Quote of the Day:
"[Clinton] does the job, gives a good speech, and everybody makes money. He's no different than anybody else. So why should I judge?"
Republican Theodore Harbilis, a 63-year-old cook in Harrisburg, Pa.
(The Washington Post, "Many Voters Can't Accept Lying About Adultery")
Prediction:
"I think he will prevail. He's very clever and articulate, and he's attracted [positive] public opinion."
Republican Rep. George W. Gekas, whose district includes Harrisburg, Pa.
(The Washington Post, "Many Voters Can't Accept Lying About Adultery")
Monday, Feb. 23
Quotes of the Day:
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"If the White House is condoning the investigation of private citizens, looking into their lives . . . that is truly a frightening . . . development."
Joseph E. diGenova, a former federal prosecutor now working for House Republicans, commenting on a tip he received that the White House had hired private investigators to investigate him and his wife
(The Washington Post, "White House Denies Private Eye Affiliation")
"No one at the White House, or anyone acting on behalf of the White House, or any of President Clinton's private attorneys has hired or authorized any private investigator to look into the background of . . . investigators, prosecutors or reporters."
Michael McCurry, White House press secretary
(The Washington Post, "White House Denies Private Eye Affiliation")
Sunday, Feb. 22
Quote of the Day:
"The president said he had no sex with 'that woman.' Simple, right?
Why do I think in a couple of weeks somebody in the White House is going to say, 'Oh, that woman, Miss Lewinsky? No, no, I thought you were talking about this woman, Tara Lipinski. I can't speak for Lewinsky. The president never had any sexual encounter with Lipinski. Or this other woman here, Mrs. Kaczynski, Ted's mom.' "
Columnist Tony Kornheiser, satirizing semantic acrobatics in the White House
(The Washington Post, "Courting Monica")
"My little girl gets no coverage at all. She can't go outside. She can't pay her bills."
William Ginsburg, lamenting his client Monica Lewinsky's lack of privacy and funds to cover her legal bills
(The Washington Post, "Ginsburg Calls for a Lewinsky Defense Fund")
Saturday, Feb. 21
Quotes of the Day:
"I proceeded to go on to the door and he rushed up behind me. I started to open up the door, he put his hand on the door to where I could not open it up any further and he stopped me and he says, 'You're a smart girl, let's keep this between ourselves.' "
Paula Jones, in a November 1997 deposition which contained details she had not previously divulged
(The Washington Post, "Jones Added New Details in Deposition")
"If you went to your parents or grandparents tonight and asked them to remember something that occurred three years ago, you would probably get slightly different accounts. That's normal."
Donovan Campbell Jr., Paula Jones's chief lawyer, on perceived inconsistencies in his client's testimony
(The Washington Post, "Jones Added New Details in Deposition")
Friday, Feb. 20
Quote of the Day:
"She is a pathetic specimen of humanity."
Bernard Lewinsky, Monica's father, lashing out at Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded conversations with his daughter
(The Washington Post, "Judge Hears Dispute on Presidential Secrecy")
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Thursday, Feb. 19
Quote of the Day:
"This couple will leave this White House impoverished, and I don't think the American people want that to take place."
David Pryor, former Democratic senator, describing what will happen to the Clintons if an aggressive fund-raising effort is not launched to cover legal debts.
(The Washington Post, "Clintons Approve New Legal Fund")
Wednesday, Feb. 18
Quote of the Day:
"[Paula Jones] spent 99 percent of her discovery efforts attempting to substantiate rumors that President Clinton made sexual advances to other women. ... Nothing could demonstrate more clearly that this suit had very little to do with redressing plaintiff's purported personal injury, and everything to do with using the ... court in an attempt to humiliate and damage the president."
Excerpt from a motion for summary judgment, filed by President Clinton's lawyers in an attempt to have Jones's lawsuit thrown out
("Motion for Summary Judgment")
Tuesday, Feb. 17
Lucianne Goldberg
(AP)
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Quotes of the Day:
"You have to be brain-dead not to be interested in this. And there's so much more to come!"
Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent who coaxed Linda Tripp into surreptitiously taping conversations with Monica Lewinsky
(The Washington Post, "The Book Agent's Pleasure Is President Clinton's Pain")
"Lucianne is one of those people who takes great delight in this sort of thing. She has an almost Dickensian interest in human foibles. And she just can't take it all too seriously."
Tony Snow, conservative political commentator
(The Washington Post, "The Book Agent's Pleasure Is President Clinton's Pain")
Monday, Feb. 16
Quote of the Day:
Leon Panetta (TWP)
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"I take him at his word and I think the American people take him at his word. They're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But I also think that at some point he's got to tell the American people the truth of what was behind this relationship. Obviously, there was something more here. And it's got to be explained to the American people."
Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff, in remarks on ABC TV's "This Week"
(The Washington Post, "'It's Got to Be Explained,' Panetta Says About Clinton, Regarding Lewinsky" )
Sunday, Feb. 15
Quotes of the Day:
"I don't think that any testimony before the grand jury is going to affect my client except her mother's, and that will affect her because she's getting angry about the treatment of her mother."
William H. Ginsburg, who is trying to protect Monica Lewinksy from perjury and obstruction of justice charges
(The Washington Post, Feb. 15, "Lewinsky Unworried, Lawyer Says" )
"Some people are aghast that Starr hauled Monica's mother before the grand jury to rat on her daughter. But what a star turn for the stage-struck Marcia Lewis. Now she can insist on playing herself in the film version."
Columnist Tony Kornheiser, on Marcia Lewis's deposition before the grand jury
(The Washington Post, "Leaking Havoc")
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