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Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who's been dressed for combat for months, retorts that if the White House wants to hand the reins of U.S. foreign policy to Annan, then we ought to anoint him secretary of state.
When Walters suggests that White House aides were right to keep Lewinsky away from Clinton, Lewinsky defiantly retorts, "I don't think so.
"If I had had an affair with Newt Gingrich, I would have ended up on the Ways and Means Committee," she retorts.
The second is to ask if you have any great retorts for these morons?
If so, he'd better hire Jimmy Smits to present it, because the camera is not his friend, retorts Taylor.