“It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.”

regarding Bill Clinton; quoted in Foleygate: The former congressman's true crime, The Phoenix, 2006-10-05, 2006-12-13 http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid24210.aspx,

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