Nobody’s Perfect, Clintons Tell Crowd

President Clinton and the first lady lamented their own shortcomings Thursday in a capital city “gripped with people who are self-righteous, sanctimonious, and hypocritical.”

“I plead guilty from time to time,” the president told the National Prayer Breakfast.

Later addressing the same interfaith gathering, Hillary Rodham Clinton echoed her husband’s inaugural call for bipartisanship - and “repairing the breach” - by recalling her own four-year tenure in Washington.

“I have felt often as though I were thrown into a breach, and I have felt on other times that I wish to push someone into a breach,” Hillary Clinton said to knowing chuckles from her luncheon audience.

The annual day of fellowship draws nearly 4,000 people representing a cross-section of the public - Republicans and Democrats, governors, judges, diplomats, bureaucrats, foreign leaders and soldiers.