“Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's private meetings with the president and confidential girl talk with Linda Tripp. Just think of the news stories we've watched on television…”

— Ted Haggard

[Haggard, Ted, Letters from Home, Regal Books, March 2003, p. 14, ISBN 0830730583]

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