Although not quite the same, New York Governor Spitzer's recent involvement with a prostitute reminded us about another "superstar" politician whose infamous marital affairs remain the butt of many late-night jokes ten years later.
"What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?" –Bill Clinton,
reacting to a survey of journalists that ranked the Monica Lewinsky
scandal as the 53rd most significant story of the century
"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly
around women. And I hope I never get into that." –Bill Clinton, to a
woman friend while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford
"Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs."
"I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years."
"Look, half the time when I see the evening news, I wouldn't be for me, either."
“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.”
“I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.”
"When
I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is
called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."