Pelosi in 1998: Impeachment has a ‘traumatic impact on the confidence that the American people have in government.’

In the American Thinker, Thomas Lifson digs up an old CSPAN clip of Nancy Pelosi saying, Impeachment has a ‘traumatic impact on the confidence that the American people have in government.’ That was when the House was impeaching Bill Clinton. Can we ever believe any words that come out of any politician's mouth?