What I want the American people to know, what I want the congress to know, is that I am profoundly sorry. Filegate, Travelgate, White Water and a campaign fundraising scandal kept a legion of printers, lawyers reporters and vengeful Republicans busy for years. It was almost miraculous this Houdini-like skill he had of getting out of jams. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. In a sense, that was a betrayal not of just me and the staff, the whole country.
People make mistakes.
We can't stand behind him. And he would have been somehow forced to leave. There were moments when I wasn't sure we were going to make it, absolutely. In a very odd way, the lesson in this one is that not telling the truth worked. These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people.