One day at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, House Majority Leader Dick Armey (a Republican congressman from Texas) held his weekly meeting with Capitol reporters:

"The jam-packed room burst into raucous laughter as one reporter prefaced a question about the scandal by saying, 'If you were in the president's position...'

"Armey didn't miss a beat. 'If I were, I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife say: How do I reload this thing?'"