You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.

Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.

We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.