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...believed in God; she told me; I pondered. She asked what Jewish holidays were like; I brought her to my great aunt’s house for Passover; she got tipsy on Manichewitz and appreciated my culture. But then we got more comfortable. And, between debates that made us mad and sometimes even made me cry, we learned more. The most important lesson for both of us, I think, was that we weren’t so different after all. And the most important lesson for me individually was that I had accomplished great things. I was the open-minded...
...also realized that I could not afford to manifest any anger. Keep in mind, I was always mad at myself because I asked for the special counsel and it was a horrible mistake. I really thought it was an up-and-up deal. The thing that really angered me was I felt helpless because I felt like I had set in motion a chain of events in a good-faith effort to reassure mostly the press more than the American people--the people didn't care--that I hadn't done anything wrong in Whitewater and neither had Hillary...
...know the Greek adage "those whom the gods would destroy they first make angry"? It's not good for a person to be as mad underneath as I was. I think if people have unresolved anger it makes them do nonrational, destructive things. People ask me all the time, they say, "What you did during the government shutdown with Monica Lewinsky didn't make any sense, so explain. How could you do this? You knew Ken Starr was looking over your shoulder...
...Bremer would be the first to tell you that he has not had much time since he arrived in Baghdad just over a year ago to think about how he will go out. The proud finisher of 20 marathons, Bremer was a distance runner thrown into a sprint, a mad 13-month dash to try to create a new government and something approaching stability out of the fractious void that Iraq became in the wake of the coalition overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003. If the U.S. occupation of Iraq has proved that Secretary of State Colin...
...former boyfriend read it once, and he was mainly mad because he wasn't in it. I said, "Yes, you are." Then I looked, and he wasn't mentioned. It was as if he didn't exist. If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve...