Political Quotes

“voting to find the President guilty in the Senate is not simply a finding of wrongdoing; it is a vote to remove a President from office for the first time in the 243-year history of our Republic. When they decided to include impeachment in the Constitution, the Framers understood how disruptive and traumatic it would be. As Alexander Hamilton warned, impeachment will ``agitate the passions of the whole community.'' This is why they decided to require the support of two-thirds of the Senate to remove a President we serve as a guardrail against partisan impeachment and against removal of a President without broad public support. Leaders in both parties previously recognized that impeachment must be bipartisan and must enjoy broad public support. In fact, as recently as March of last year, Manager Adam Schiff said there would be ``little to be gained by putting the country through'' the ``wrenching experience'' of a partisan impeachment. Yet, only a few months later, a partisan impeachment is exactly what the House produced. This meant two Articles of Impeachment whose true purpose was not to protect the Nation but, rather, to, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, stain the President's record because ``he has been impeached forever'' and ``they can never erase that.'' It now falls upon this Senate to take up what the House produced and faithfully execute our duties under the Constitution of the United States. Why does impeachment exist?…”