Political Quotes

Neal Katyal

The Public Record

Neal Katyal is a prominent American attorney and legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law. He served as the Acting Solicitor General of the United States from 2010 to 2011, becoming the first Asian American to hold this position. Katyal has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, often focusing on issues related to civil rights and government accountability. He is a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells and has been a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on constitutional law and national security law.

Quotes by year · 20172025483 total · peak 2021 (193)
2017: 4 quotes2018: 18 quotes2019: 42 quotes2020: 69 quotes2021: 193 quotes2022: 155 quotes2025: 2 quotes
Jan 27, 2022

I think the idea that to say these folks are unqualified, I can’t think of something more pathetic, something more stupid, something more divisive. It’s just flatly wrong.

msnbc.com
Jan 26, 2022

We need someone who can fight and who knows how to talk to other people.

msnbc.com
Jan 20, 2022

I think the technical legal term is deep doo-doo.

msnbc.com
Jan 20, 2022

The Supreme Court today blew that out of the water.

msnbc.com
Jan 5, 2022

To fail to investigate government officials, including Trump, who had to know the attempt was to interfere with the counting of the vote, to say nothing of its potential for violence, is itself fantastically dangerous.

msnbc.com
Jan 3, 2022

These subpoenas are going to be enforced.

msnbc.com
Jan 2, 2022

Donald Trump ran the country the same way as he ran his businesses.

msnbc.com
Dec 27, 2021

If the president just kind of sat on his hands watching TV, as Senator McCaskill said and not doing anything, because he had a certain intent which was to obstruct the official count on January 6, absolutely that`s a federal crime, every…

msnbc.com
Dec 27, 2021

The duty of American person is go and tell the truth to a congressional committee.

msnbc.com
Dec 26, 2021

It`s what distinguishes what`s a crime from what`s an accident, the law of torts.

msnbc.com
Dec 26, 2021

We now know -- or Chairman Thompson has said that he has learned that there have been prior videotapes of what Donald Trump tried to say, that they had to be re-recorded and the like.

msnbc.com
Dec 26, 2021

I think the two things that I`d point to are things that Chairman Thompson, head of the January 6 Commission in Congress, have pointed to just in the last few hours.

msnbc.com
Dec 26, 2021

Do they want to tell the truth and avoid jail time, or do they want to be behind bars?

msnbc.com
Dec 23, 2021

the thing about living in a democracy is once you`re out of office, you`re an ordinary person.

msnbc.com
Dec 23, 2021

this would be a political thicket, but just legally, this is not a strong claim by Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form.

msnbc.com
Dec 23, 2021

what the Trump petition is asking the Supreme Court to do is write a new law out of thin air that takes a power away from the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and gives it to a man living in Florida.

msnbc.com
Dec 14, 2021

If we`re going to have this in Texas for abortion, then we should have it in New York and California and other states for guns.

msnbc.com
Dec 12, 2021

I think Chris Christie is wrong when he says C team. I`d give it the F team.

msnbc.com
Dec 12, 2021

The solution can’t be to sit on your hands and do nothing. It’s to go and run for those positions and vote for honest people of whatever party who do decide to run for election.

msnbc.com
Dec 12, 2021

what she said is that it`s an obstruction of an official investigation even if you weren`t -- an official proceeding, like January 6, even if someone wasn`t trying to engage in violence or something like that.

msnbc.com
Dec 12, 2021

I personally would like Democrats to win, but, actually, I just want honest people in those positions.

msnbc.com
Dec 9, 2021

Donald Trump is a loser in court again bigly. This is what he does.

msnbc.com
Dec 9, 2021

these claims of executive privilege are bogus.

msnbc.com
Dec 9, 2021

Biden made as the court of appeals said, a principle decision to protect the office of the presidency.

msnbc.com
Nov 30, 2021

we will be really worried about Roe vs. Wade, given the Republican project, which has been since 1973 to get that decision overruled.

msnbc.com

Politicians like Neal Katyal