quote of the day

A Shakespeare scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, met Clinton in the White House on a poetry evening to celebrate the Millanium.

When he was shaking hand with Clinton after the event was closed, he asked Clinton (this was at the early stage of the Monica Levinski scandal; the whole thing has not blown up yet.), "Mr. President, don't you think that McBeth is a great play about someone who felt compelled to do things that he knows are politically and morally disasters."
Clinton looked at him for a second, still holding Stephen's hand, and said "I think Mcbeth is a great play about a man whose immense ambition has an ethically inadequate object."

Stephne was amazed and even thrown off by his quick response.