According to White House counsel Charles F. C. Ruff, Bill Clinton could not have perjured himself because “in his mind — and that’s the heart and soul of perjury — he thought and he believed that what he was doing was being evasive but truthful.”
In other words, if your view of reality is sufficiently distorted by self-interest, as Clinton’s no doubt is, then you simply can’t commit perjury. If you are sufficiently solipsistic, you are immune to prosecution for lying under oath.
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