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" And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened. "
About
Bad
Felt
" 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. "
You
Media
Legal
" At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI. "
Point
Might
FBI
" 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. "
Enough
Feelings
Man
" 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. "
Family
Myself
Me
" He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. "
Right
Made
He
" He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that. "
Said
Mean
Know
" I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. "
Know
Way
Relationship
" 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. "
Said
Truth
People
" 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. "
Angry
Anger
Said
" I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. "
Dessert
Expect
Trying
" I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain. "
Pain
Center
Feelings
" I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself. "
Past
Move On
Life
" I know I will never have an affair with a married man again. "
Will
Never
Man
" 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. "
I Am
Girl
Tough
" 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? "
Guilt
You
Responsibility
" 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. "
Environment
Man
Me
" I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for. "
Something
Kind
Known
" I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in. "
Media
Trying
Best
" I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things. "
Me
Trust
Think
" I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight. "
Know
Try
Think
" It was a mutual relationship. "
Mutual
Relationship
" 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. "
President
Maybe
Know
" I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually. "
Life
Think
Heart
" 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. "
School
Law
Go
" I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth. "
Taste
Republican
Mouth
" I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it. "
Enjoying
Him
Excited
" I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself. "
President
Mom
More
" So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there. "
Change
Think
Stop
" 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. "
Time
Through
Job
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