Dept. of self-cancelling statements

From the Washington Post re Tom Ridge tell-all:

"When you serve a president, you owe him a high degree of discretion," says Paul Begala, a former Clinton White House aide who has criticized the tenor of his friend Stephanopoulos's book. "Every time a publisher suggested I write a book about my experiences with Clinton, I said, 'I don't want to lie and I don't want to tell the truth.'

A model of discretion, he.