Political Quotes

“Well, Mr. President, if I can say to the Senator from Pennsylvania, there is an old Latin phrase that is used in law, ``post hoc, ergo propter hoc,'' meaning ``after this, therefore because of this.'' It seems fairly obvious that if, on June 11, the Justice Department has no objection to granting of immunity, and then there is a big headline in the newspaper on the following morning, and immediately after that the minority leader announces that all of the Democrats will oppose immunity--now, there obviously had to be some kind of a meeting at which this was discussed or he could not have confidently spoken of how the minority members would react--and then a minority counsel talks to the Justice Department and announces that their position has been changed, the only conclusion that one, I think, can legitimately draw from this is that the intervening events caused the change of policy at the Justice Department. If that is true--and, of course, none of us know whether it is true--but if that is true, that clearly injects politics into this investigation in a way which makes it crystal clear that the Attorney General does not have the credibility to continue the investigation of this matter and must appoint an independent counsel.”