42 Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

The president shared his account of the Lewinsky matter with me, ... He did so unguardedly and freely under the assumption that we were speaking in complete privacy. What I told the grand jury under oath supports completely what the president has told the American people and is contrary to any charge that the president has done anything wrong.

was about the prosecutors, what's been said about them, what Mr. Blumenthal has heard about them.

Do you remember that story I told you back in January? Well now that you're actually going to be a witness, now that you're going down to testify before the grand jury, I don't want you to give the grand jury a false impression. I don't want you to give false information to the grand jury. I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth. I need to recant for you what I told you.

collapse eventually of their own insubstantiality. And in these conversations with me, the First Lady has always been supportive of the president.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

If Ken Starr is interested in the truth, he heard it today.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.