Monica Lewinsky Quotes - Page 3

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

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 was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

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 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.

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

Do you want me to answer that?

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

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.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.