This time last year, the country was practically screaming at Clinton to tell the grand jury the truth and all would be forgiven.

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Under the circumstances, is it not appropriate to infer that to tell the truth would be to confirm all of the questionable charges against him?

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But it was true, and I needed to hear it, needed my father to tell it to me, just as we all need our fathers to tell us the truth, as someday I'll tell it to my children, too.

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The cause de jour has become an insistence that the Pentagon tell nothing but the truth, the whole truth, all the time.

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"I felt like I hadn't pitched all year, to tell you the truth, " Pettitte said.

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But first I think all these cameras are going to move out, so you can tell me the truth. (Laughter.) All right?

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You know one of the arguments against term limits you know I put term limits on myself when I went to the United States Senate and I still think it's a pretty good idea to tell you the truth but one of the arguments against that is look at all the expertise you'd lose if you had term limits.

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All that I was ever told to was to tell the truth to the best of my ability.

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