Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, now I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question from Senator Durbin to the House managers: Would you please respond to the answer that was given by President's counsel to Senator Sinema's question? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Senators, Mr. Chief Justice, in answer to that question, we heard a rather breathtaking admission by the President's lawyer, and it was said in an understated way, so you might have missed it. But what the President's counsel said was that no foreign policy was being conducted by a private party here; that is, Rudy Giuliani was not conducting U.S. foreign policy. Rudy Giuliani was not conducting policy. That is a remarkable admission because, to the degree that they have attempted to suggest or claim or insinuate that this is a policy difference, that a concern over burden-sharing or some big corruption was a policy issue, they have now acknowledged that the person in charge of this was not conducting policy. That is a startling admission. So the investigations that Giuliani was charged with trying to get Ukraine to announce into Joe Biden, into this Russia propaganda theory, they have just admitted were not part of policy. They were not policy conducted by Mr. Giuliani. So what were they? They were, in the words of Dr. Hill, ``a domestic political errand,'' not to be confused with policy.…”