"It`s not at all acceptable, that he bailed at the last minute."
"That`s just completely bogus. And it`s a smokescreen for -- I don`t know what he thinks he`s trying to prove."
"Yes, and it was obviously not just a rally that got out of control."
"We have detailed some of the questions we have based on some of the evidence that we have obtained. So it`s not just general, gosh, we`d like to know what`s on your mind. But specific areas of inquiry..."
"That would be correct. Congress doesn’t choose the president. The American voters choose the president."
"We will have very substantial hearings in the very near future, laying out, as well as we can, in this detailed a fashion as we can, the evidence about what happened. And we hope that that will be def..."
"It`s our hope that this hearing today will bring us closer to developing a consensus on recommended policy reforms that will combat financial conflicts of interest and restore public faith and trust i..."
"a public office is a public trust. Without the public's trust and confidence, government loses its legitimacy."
"the late Chairwoman, Representative Louise Slaughter, was the primary champion of the STOCK Act and worked for years to see it passed into law."
"This committee is doing its job. The Department of Justice needs to do theirs."
"It is a phrase we use all the time: No one is above the law."