“[There’s] not any example of where I ever disgraced this country publicly. I made a terrible public-personal mistake, but I paid for it, many times over. And in spite of it all, you don’t have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I ever let the American people down.”–Bill Clinton, yesterday.
And not to re-debate the definition of “is,” but does anyone know the etymology of the phrase “public-personal mistake?” Bill Safire–a little help?