I would give almost anything i have to reverse the course of my life in the last year,
The past doesn't change for anyone,
But at least I can learn from the past,
I have learned a lot about life, I have learned a lot about myself and about the responsibilies any man has to his follow man.
I learned a lot about good and evil. they are not always what they appear to be.
I was involved, deeply involved in the deception,
I have deceived my freinds and i have millions of them.
I lied to the American people, I lied about what i knew, and then I lied about what i did not know.
In a sense, I was like a child, who refuses to admit a fact in the hope it will go away.
Of course, it did not go away. I was scared, scared to death,
I had no solid position, no basis to stand on for myself; there was one way out, and that was simply to tell the truth.
It may sound trite to you, but I've found myself again after a number of years.
I'd been acting a role, maybe all my life of thinking I'd done more, accomplished more, produced more than I have.
I've had all the breaks, I have stood on the shoulders of life and
I have never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own.
I have flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy.
That is why i am here today.