It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

A lot of women were betting on me because there were so few role models and I let them down. They had put me on a pedestal. I maybe enjoyed being in that limelight, but I couldn't reverse what I had done.