Monica Lewinsky Quotes

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Lies are beginning to be solidified and made into historical fact…. The truth is all I want for history.

People are not likely to lie on the Internet about the atomic number of Rubidium, but they will lie about history.

There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

TV is not accurate.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

All history professors tell lies in their classrooms. That is what they get paid to do.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.

History is more robust than poetry because it is more truthful.

There’s dramatic license, which is necessary or nothing’s fun, and historical truth, which is necessary or nothing’s understood.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.

Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

Completeness is rare in history.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.