From the Tripp tapes, reported by Newsweek magazine:
Linda Tripp: I think down deep you don't like having to lie.
Lewinsky: . . . I don't think anybody likes to. . . . I would lie on the stand for my family. That is how I was raised.
Tripp: . . . I would do almost anything for my kids, but I don't think I would lie on the stand for them.
Lewinsky: I was brought up with lies all the time . . . that's how you got along. . . . I have lied my entire life.

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She is of Russian Jewish descent.

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