Political Quotes

Jack Kingston: “I also have a question for you: We, in Congress, have been trying to hold hearings to determine if certain people gave a…”

On the recordOctober 8, 1997
I also have a question for you: We, in Congress, have been trying to hold hearings to determine if certain people gave a certain administration illegal contributions. Our problem is that key witnesses have inconveniently disappeared. This upset lots of good Democrats and Republicans who want to get to the bottom of this scandal. Question: Do you think that we could use the powerful infrared eyes of your amazing telescope to find the following people? These are Charlie Trie, Ming Chen, Stanley Ho, John Muncy, Ng Lap Seng, folks who are big Democratic donors who have disappeared. If we could use the Hubbell, we could find these folks and get to the bottom of this scandal.
Said by
Jack Kingston
Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the disappearance of key witnesses in a congressional investigation.

Share

More from Jack Kingston

Jan 30, 2018

I may have a little bit of a republican paranoia in here, in me, but when you see 75 percent of independent voters approve of what the president said last night, I could have told you a year ago the next day the New York Times was going to…

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 6, 2018

I think there's going to be a real interesting back-story here because if I'm the president right now I'm talking to John Kelly and saying, tell me what you knew, who kept this information from you if you did not know.

transcripts.cnn.com
Feb 19, 2018

These kids are not disrespecting any flag. They're not disrespecting any anthem. They are going down to their government and they are petitioning for redress of grievance.

transcripts.cnn.com
Oct 26, 2017

The problems here on the day of the Kennedy files being released is that the American people just really don't trust any of us.

transcripts.cnn.com

Other voices in this conversation