1.   But the American people are not bound by the terminology of the criminal code in judging their president.

2.   Clinton understands how history judges presidents.

3.   How do lawmakers keep their objectivity in judging a president whom many of the Republicans have scorned and many of the Democrats have reflexively defended?

4.   Historians judge presidents by the lasting effects of their leadership on the country, and its lingering influence on how people live and think today.

5.   If presidents were judged on the basis of their conduct and achievements after leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter would lead all the rest.

6.   Mogollon, who has publicly acknowledged accepting some of the money involved in the case, has rejected demands he excuse himself from judging the president.

7.   No lawmaker who was sworn in to judge the president had ever been involved in anything like it before.

8.   Presidents should be judged on what they really do, not on what the Fed chairman does.

9.   Presidents are inevitably judged not simply by what they promised in their campaigns but by how they reacted to events.

10.   Rather than weakening the presidency, it may represent a softening of the standards by which presidents are judged.