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"So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?"
"I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself."
"It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president."
"I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it."
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past."
"And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media."
"I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person."
"Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me."
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"I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth."
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