The War Room1993

George Stephanopoulos:
[in a phone conversation with the director of the Illinois Perot Office] Read it to me. Well what is names and addresses? I could send you a fax of names, addresses, and phone numbers of who you had an affair with, it wouldn't make it true. Yeah, I just... believe me. Believe me that it's been looked at by every major national news organization. Everything. And it is completely bullshit. If you went on the radio and said that Bill Clinton is the father of an illegitimate black child, you would be laughed at. People would think you're crazy. We're not gonna lose. We are gonna win. He is gonna be president. Well, no, but don't think of it like that. Think of it on two levels: number one, of course it's not gonna matter. But, number two, think of yourself. I guarantee you, if you do this, you'll never work in Democratic politics again. Maybe you don't want to, I'm not saying it matters. You will be embarrassed by the International Press Corps.; people will think - - nobody will believe you - - and people will think you're scummy. The alternative is, you don't do it, it causes you some temporary pain with people who, tomorrow, aren't gonna matter... and you have a campaign that understands that in a difficult time, you did something right. Uh, and you know, that's important. I mean, it doesn't mean anything, and we can't do anything for you specifically or anything like that, but you, you know you did the right thing. And you didn't dishonor yourself.