Political Quotes

“What happened yesterday in the courts of the District of Columbia was, on one side of the equation, frightening and, on another side, encouraging--frightening that any administration would think that they can quash the free speech of Members of Congress, that they can be indicting people and charging them with crimes for simply speaking out as an elected Member of Congress. Like Senator Schumer said, there is no precedent that I can think of in American history. There has never been a President who used the Department of Justice to quiet Congress in this way. The fact that the grand jury of residents in the District of Columbia stood up and rejected this indictment of two Senators and several Members of the House is proof positive that people still understand the basic values of our Constitution. And one of them is our freedom of expression, freedom to speak, freedom to express our point of view. This was a test. I hope it was the last test.”