I' m ashamed of /ncreasing the military budget and decreasing the welfare

I' m ashamed of /ncreasing the military budget and decreasing the welfare budget. |’ m ashamed of dropping cluster bombs and continuing to plant land mines. But the Republicans didn’ t dare attack me for any of those positions because they are their positions too. I’ Il tell you how | survived this past year, how | maintained such high approval ratings, while Newt Gingrich fell by the wayside. How | managed, in short, to remain president. It was partly the state of the economy, and it was partly the state of the culture. Pornography is a twenty-billion-dollars-a-year business in this country. Steven Spielberg told me that’ s more than Hollywood’ s entire domestic box-office receipts. Because it’ s what the American public wants. And the TV networks exploit that dirty little secret. It' s why sweeps weeks are always so raunchy. So, then, what /did wasn’ t considered such a big deal after all. Mainly, though, | have survived because, one sunny afternoon, Monica was positioning herself on the carpet under my desk in the Oval Office while | was on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu. | was telling him about the time that Monica was performing oral sex on me while Yassir Arafat was waiting in the Rose Garden for our appointment. | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015141