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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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" 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. "

Monica Lewinsky

I Am

Girl

Tough

" 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. "

Monica Lewinsky

President

Mom

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

" And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened. "

" Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps. "

Monica Lewinsky

Historical

Clear

" 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. "

" I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth. "

" 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? "

" This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character. "

" 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. "

" He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. "

Monica Lewinsky

Right

Made

" 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. "

" 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. "

Monica Lewinsky

School

Law

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out. "

" 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 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. "

Monica Lewinsky

Environment

Man

" I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it. "

" I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for. "

" 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. "

" It was a mutual relationship. "

Monica Lewinsky

Mutual

Relationship

" I know I will never have an affair with a married man again. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Monica Lewinsky

Trust

Think

" 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. "