You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.
If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.
One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.
I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.