"All I've been asked about by the press are a woman I didn't sleep with and a draft I didn't dodge." - ABC News' Nightline, February 12, 1992.
On April 6, 1992, former Clinton friend Cliff Jackson revealed that Clinton had received a draft induction notice in the spring of 1969, correcting months of Clinton claims he "wasn't called."
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"When the rip-off artists looted our S&Ls, the President was silent. In a Clinton administration, when people sell their companies and their workers and their country down the river, they'll get called on the carpet." - Clinton's presidential campaign announcement speech, October 1991.
Congress investigated why the President granted waivers for Loral Corporation to assist China in strategically significant missile launches.
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CHINA Most Favored Nation status:
"The [Bush] administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform" - Bill Clinton, 1992
"We will condition favorable trade terms with repressive regimes--such as China's Communist regime--on respect for human rights, political liberalization, and responsible international conduct."
Putting People First, September 1992.
"We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights record and its conduct on trade and weapon sales."
August 13, 1992.
"I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the annual extension of most-favored nation trading status for China."
May 26, 1994.
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BOSNIA, 1995
Clinton said he would deploy troops to Bosnia for only 18 months, and then they would come home.
BOSNIA, 1998
The Clinton administration confirmed plans to maintain thousands of troops on an open-ended peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with no exit strategy.`The policy is to remain there. It's open-ended.
They remain there to this day.
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"I didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." - President William Jefferson Clinton
In the 60 Minutes interview, Steve Kroft asked: "I'm assuming from your answer that you're categorically denying you've ever had an affair with Gennifer Flowers?" Clinton replied: "I've said that before, and so has she." In his deposition in the Paula Jones case, Clinton admitted having sex with Flowers.
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GOVERNMENT REFORM:
"It's long past time to clean up Washington. The last twelve years were nothing less than an extended hunting season for high-priced lobbyists and Washington influence peddlers. On streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of money now changes hands -- tying the hands of those elected to lead." - Putting People First, September 1992.
"Inside Schmoozers Line Up...Three of Clinton's top appointments were lobbyists: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown...U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor...and Veterans' Affairs Director Jesse Brown." - Cleveland Plain-Dealer, February 8, 1993, p. 1A.
"But in a recognition of the fact that lobbyists constitute a fertile source of fund-raising, Clinton will accept contributions [to his legal defense fund] of up to $1,000 annually from the Washington lobbyists whose activities he decried during the campaign and since taking office."
Washington Post, June 29, 1994, p. A1
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100 DAY Plan:
Bill Clinton: "I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desks of Congress on the day after I'm inaugurated. I intend to have an explosive 100 day action period. Why do I think it will pass? Well, first of all, I'm running on it."
Jan 14, 1993 - Question from member of press:
"We were originally led to believe you would have an outline for congress even before the inauguration and
presented on day one or shortly thereafter - and now we're told it may be a couple weeks down the road with a
full plan ready in March. When will it be ready?"
Reply by Bill Clinton: "Well, I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the Only one who's authorized to talk about that ---"
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On Jan. 19, 1992 Bill Clinton said, "I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy."
But on Jan. 14, 1993 at a press conference, Bill Clinton said, "From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle-class tax cut. "I never did meet any voter who thought that."
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50 PERCENT QUOTA FOR CABINET WOMEN:
"I wouldn't restrict myself to having just half the Cabinet be women. I might want more." - February 29, 1992.
Currently, 3 out of 14 Cabinet members are women, or 21 percent. If the EPA becomes a cabinet department, the number will increase to 4 of 15, or 26 percent. If the UN Ambassador is counted, then just 31 percent of the Cabinet is female (5 out of 16). - Information as of November 19, 1993
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Bill Clinton, 1990, "I will serve my entire term as Governor of Arkansas through 1995. I have no aspirations for higher office." (in 1991 he said "I proudly announce my candidacy for President of the United States!")
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Bill Clinton, 1992, "I believe the middle class needs a tax cut" (in 1993 he raised everyone's taxes)
1. MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT:
"I believe you deserve more than 30-second ads or vague promises. That's why I've offered a comprehensive plan to get our economy moving again. It starts with a tax cut for the middle class and asks the rich to pay their fair share again."
Clinton's first campaign ad, January 1992.
"We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
Putting People First, September 1992.
"I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending or we will slow down the phase-in of these programs. I am not gonna raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs."
October 19, 1992.
"From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that."
January 14, 1993.
"To middle class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight..."
February 17, 1993.
2. TAX BURDEN:
"You know what my plan is, to raise taxes on people whose incomes are above $200,000..." - July 13, 1992.
The new 36 percent Clinton tax rate takes effect on couples earning more than $140,000 and individuals making more than $115,000. - P.L. 103-66, Clinton's Tax and Spend Plan.
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Bill Clinton, 1995, "We can balance the budget by 1998"
Bill Clinton, 1996, We can balance the budget by 1999"
Bill Clinton, 1996, "The budget will be balanced by 2001"
The budget was never balanced during Clinton's two terms in office.
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July 1991: Question: "Have you ever used Marijuana or any illegal drugs?" Answer: "I've never broken any drug law." - Arkansas Gazette, July 24th, 1991, p. 8B
Asked this 3 times, on 3 separate occasions, by 3 different interviewers, your Great White Hope repeated this claim. Until faced with irrefutable proof, that is. Then he said:
March 29th, 1992: "I've never broken a state law. But when I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two..."
Later, in that same interview, "No one has ever asked me that question point-blank." - The New York Times, March 30th, 1992, p.A15.
Bill Clinton April 24, 1992: "I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth." - (Bill Clinton, New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/24/92)
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PRIVACY ACT VIOLATIONS:
"If I catch anybody using the State Department like that [searching files] when I'm president, you won't have to wait till after the election to see them gone...I just want you to know that the State Department of this country is not going to be fooling with Bill Clinton's politics, and if I catch anybody doing it I will fire them the next day; you won't have to have an inquiry or rigmarole or anything else..."
November 12, 1992.
"The State Department's inspector general has been asked to investigate whether the Privacy Act may have been violated when information from personnel files of former Bush administration political appointees at the department was examined and disseminated...personnel folders of two former Bush officials, Jennifer Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Tamposi, had been reviewed." - Washington Post, September 3, 1993, p. A1.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher "fired two lower-level State department political employees for their involvement in the retrieval and disclosure in September of information from Bush administration personnel files...." Friday, November 10, 69 days after their actions were first reported. - Washington Post, November 11, p. A10.
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"I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child." - Bill Clinton - June 8 1996 - national radio address
"Others don't recall what Clinton does"
Headline in Arkansas Democrat Gazette of a column by Frank Wolfe June 9, 1996
"I've never known of a black church being burned in Arkansas."
John Ferguson, Director Arkansas History Commission
quoted in the Frank Wolfe column June 9, 1996
"I looked through my files. I couldn't find anything." [referring to the Clinton quote about fires at black churches in Arkansas] - Curtis Sykes, Chairman Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee quoted in the Wolfe column June 9, 1996
"We were just fortunate not to have one." [when asked about fires at Arkansas black churches] - Jerry Jewell, former state senator and former Branch President of Arkansas NAACP
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"Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses. That's why I would really like to do well in them." - Bill Clinton, Feb 12, 1996
THE TRUTH: THE IOWA CAUCUSES DIDN'T BEGIN UNTIL 1972 when Clinton was at Oxford in England
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25 PERCENT WHITE HOUSE STAFF CUTS:
"We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent..."
Putting People First, September 1992.
"What the cuts [to White House staff] have become, instead, is a struggle to make the numbers come out right, a study in creative definitions of what constitutes the White House staff, and a flurry of pink slips sent to career workers...Figures provided by the White House...show increases in spending on the White House office staff, the vice president's staff, the Office of Administration, the Domestic policy office and the National Security Council...The Office of Management and Budget and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, show slight increases as well. Where the major saving occurs is in the Office of National Drug Control Policy, where $76 million in its `forfeiture fund' has been reduced to $28 million, and staff--all career workers in the anti-drug field--has been reduced from 112 to 25 for a total savings of nearly $60 million."
Washington Post, September 30, 1993, p. A1.
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DRUG WAR:
"[President Bush] hasn't fought a real war on crime and drugs. I will." - July 16, 1992.
"I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance." - Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), April 24, 1993.
Clinton reduced funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (drug czar) to $5.8 million (FY 1993 funding level was $103 million). - Budget of the United States Government for FY 1994, p. A-222.
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Lying About the Missile Threat:
The President has on more than 130 occasions -- including a State of the Union address -- told the American people that there are no ballistic missiles targeted at them. This is either absolutely untrue or a temporary state of affairs that can change so speedily as to be strategically irrelevant, as the House Republican leadership and the blue-ribbon Rumsfeld Commission, among others, have pointed out to him.
While some apologists seek to sidestep what became known as "the intergity problem" (PC-speak for "he's always lying"), the fact is that numerous lies were made while under oath. At that point the nature of the lie is immaterial. If you say the sky is green under oath, you can be convicted of perjury and imprisoned. It is insane that we as a nation allowed Clinton and his gang of spin-meisters to distract us from the key issue, that a lie is wrong, and sidetrack us onto a million other distractions while Clinton went on to lie and lie again.
Just as one small example of how far Clinton went to avoid the truth, in the portions of President Clinton's January 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers followed by a number that indicates how many times he gave each one.
I don't remember - 71
I don't know - 62
I'm not sure - 17
I have no idea - 10
I don't believe so - 9
I don't recall - 8
I don't think so - 8
I don't have any specific recollection - 6
I have no recollection - 4
Not to my knowledge - 4
I just don't remember - 4
I don't believe - 4
I have no specific recollection - 3
I might have - 3
I don't have any recollection of that - 2
I don't have a specific memory - 2
I don't have any memory of that - 2
I just can't say - 2
I have no direct knowledge of that - 2
I don't have any idea - 2
Not that I recall - 2
I don't believe I did - 2
I can't remember - 2
I can't say - 2
I do not remember doing so - 2
Not that I remember - 2
I'm not aware - 1
I honestly don't know - 1
I don't believe that I did - 1
I'm fairly sure - 1
I have no other recollection - 1
I'm not positive - 1
I certainly don't think so - 1
I don't really remember - 1
I would have no way of remembering that - 1
That's what I believe happened - 1
To my knowledge, no - 1
To the best of my knowledge - 1
To the best of my memory - 1
I honestly don't recall - 1
I Honestly Don't Know'
I honestly don't remember - 1
That's all I know - 1
I don't have an independent recollection of that - 1
I don't actually have a independent memory of that - 1
As far as I know - 1
I don't believe I ever did that - 1
That's all I know about that - 1
I'm just not sure - 1
Nothing that I remember - 1
I simply don't know - 1
I would have no idea - 1
I don't know anything about that - 1
I don't have any direct knowledge of that - 1
I just don't know - 1
I really don't know - 1
I can't deny that I did, I just - I have no memory of that at all - 1
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"I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation."
--President Bill Clinton, October 17, 1997. "National Character Counts Week."
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"I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of this impeachment and removal proceeding," Clinton said. "I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if he'd go on and resign."
Clinton, a law professor at the University of Arkansas, said there was "no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense."
Representative Is "Out of Step," Clinton Charges, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, 1974
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