Today, looking out from his church opposite the Omagh army base and its 20ft high security walls, that is a conversation he still wants to have with people he has come to pity rather than hate.
He squirms when his arrogant early e-mails are described, and has said he would rather not have a film made of his life while he is still around.
On wider policy, however, he may still not have said enough to persuade his critics he really is the new Thatcher rather than the next Blair.
He snared Dan Rather when Mr Rather was still a wet-behind-the-ears White House correspondent.
And why George Osborne is still running one, even though he'd rather not.
Mr Clinton has no wish to advertise his own party's divisions on trade so soon before congressional elections, and for now would rather use such political capital as he still has on the equally fraught issue of financing the International Monetary Fund.
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Vicky Pryce's solicitor questioned whether she should have been treated as a victim rather than a defendant as he indicated an appeal was still being considered.
This replacement indicator, though, still suggests "sluggish growth rather than recession, " he wrote in a recent note, similar to the story told by the official GDP data.
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This is still a profit for Mr Crosby, who is single, but he says he will rent rather than buy another home himself.
That Naidu has gained his people's trust is shown by the fact that he advocates economic reform - widely seen in India as hurting rather than helping ordinary people - and still wins elections.
"None of that fully explains the gap - we would still have expected the labour market to have been rather weaker than it has been, " he said.
Likewise with capital punishment, Scalia said the issue is not whether the court should ultimately decide whether there should still be a death penalty -- he claimed not to have an opinion on that -- but rather whether individual states should decide such a question.
Nevertheless, it may still be hard to persuade Mr Magalhaes to concentrate on economic reforms rather than on an inquiry he has instigated into corruption among judges, which, together with another into the banking system, has occupied much of the Senate's time so far this year.
The answer, according to National Journal, is Rep. Chris Gibson of upstate New York, and based on NJ's analysis of his 2011-12 voting record, he's still more conservative than all but nine of that term's House Democrats, four of whom retired rather than try for re-election in GOP-friendly districts.
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