In four weeks, he has made a full disclosure of his health. He's educated the public about MS, he's done this every day. He has done everything...
Bruno:
Except apologize. In four weeks, he has saved Haiti for
democracy, funded the Justice Department Tobacco lawsuit, watched the market rebound... he has done everything but apologize.
Leo:
You think he apologizes and his numbers go up?
Bruno:
I think you brought me in two weeks ago because they haven't yet.
Leo:
They have.
Bruno:
Two points in a month? If he runs for reelection 27 years from now, he's got a fighting chance.
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.
I agree with those who have said that in my first statement after I testified I was not contrite enough. I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned.
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: first and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
A couple of days ago when I was in Florida a Jewish friend of mine gave me this liturgy book called “Gates of Repentance.” And there was this incredible passage from the Yom Kippur liturgy. I would like to read it to you:
“Now is the time for turning. The leaves are beginning to turn from green to red to orange. The birds are beginning to turn and are heading once more toward the south. The animals are beginning to turn to storing their food for the winter. For leaves, birds and animals, turning comes instinctively.
But for us, turning does not come so easily. It takes an act of will for us to make a turn. It means breaking old habits. It means admitting that we have been wrong, and this is never easy. It means losing face. It means starting all over again. And this is always painful. It means saying I am sorry. It means recognizing that we have the ability to change. These things are terribly hard to do. But unless we turn, we will be trapped forever in yesterday's ways.
Lord help us to turn, from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith. Turn us around, O Lord, and bring us back toward you.”
