Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, Senator Daines, and Senator Cruz. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senators Alexander, Daines, and Cruz is for the House managers: Compare the bipartisanship in the Nixon, Clinton, and Trump impeachment proceedings. Specifically, how bipartisan was the vote in the House of Representatives to authorize and direct the House committees to begin formal impeachment inquiries for each of the three Presidents? Ms. Manager LOFGREN. Mr. Chief Justice and Senators, in the Nixon impeachment, you look back and think about the vote in the House Judiciary Committee. It ended up bipartisan, but it didn't start that way. The parties were dug in, as parties are today. The Republicans and Democrats saw it differently. But as the evidence emerged, a bipartisan consensus emerged on the committee, and a number of Republicans--Tom Railsback, who just passed away, and Caldwell Butler, who loved Richard Nixon--he was a huge fan of Richard Nixon's. But they couldn't turn away from the evidence that their President had committed abuse of power, cheated the election, and they had to vote to impeach him. When it came to the Clinton impeachment, that was--again, it started out along very partisan lines, and it ended along partisan lines. I believe the reason why, as I said a short while earlier, was that we never had a high crime and misdemeanor. That was the problem.…”