“No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people.”

—  Bill Clinton

Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980731-26849.html (July 31, 1998)
1990s

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