From former Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers’s testimony on Bill Clinton’s behalf, during the Senate Impeachment Trial of 1999.
We are none of us perfect. Sure, you say, he should have thought of all that beforehand. And indeed he should. Just as Adam and Eve should have.
Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances, should have thought of it before.
And I say none of us are perfect.
I remember, Chaplain, the — the chaplain’s not here, is he?
(LAUGHTER)
That’s too bad. He ought to hear this story.
(LAUGHTER)
This evangelist was holding this great revival meeting, and at the close of one of his meetings he said, is there anybody in this audience who has ever known anybody who even comes close to the perfection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? Nothing. He repeated the challenge, and finally a itty bitty guy the in back of the audience kind of held up his hand, and he said, “You — are you saying you’ve known such a person? Stand up.”
He stood up, and he said, “Tell us, share it with us.
Who was it?” He said, “My wife’s first husband.”
