Political Quotes

“In any free society, we can only survive if people, largely voluntarily, choose to comply with the law. That is, in a democracy, the success or failure of that democracy is dependent upon respect for the law and respect for the government that creates that law. It seems to me that it is absolutely patently clear that Janet Reno is not only not doing her job and covering up and rolling over and playing dead, but most importantly, in not doing her job, in covering up, in rolling over and playing dead, in, for example, ruling as recently as this weekend that the Justice Department for the 18th time was going to refuse to open an investigation or authorize a special prosecutor for the President because he had done nothing wrong; moments, literally moments before the White House released these tapes, her conduct, I would suggest, is eating away at the most fundamental aspect of what our society depends upon, and that is faith and credit by the American people in the integrity of this government.”