Political Quotes

“I keep hearing this argument over and over again--weaponizing the Department of Justice. His complaint is that the Department of Justice has decided that Donald Trump, an American citizen, should be held responsible for his own conduct. Why would you argue that any citizen in this country is above the law? I didn't choose to make that strategy or even support it publicly, but I can't argue with the decision by the attorney general, nor the State of New York, nor the State of Atlanta, who believe that Donald Trump did things that he should be held accountable for. He will have his day in court, like every American citizen. He should not be put in some saintly status that he can't be touched. To think that in order to show my protest to any policy, I want to see the Department of Justice of the United States grind to a halt-- does the Senator have any idea what he just said? To think that we would stop the court proceedings, we would stop the prosecutions, we would stop the war against drugs, we would stop the war against terrorism, have them grind to a halt because I am mad that the former President is being, in my mind, harassed by this administration--this is irresponsible conduct, it is dangerous conduct, and it is a terrible precedent to set in the Senate that we would say to any individual: You have the power to stop a nominee who has been found to be acceptable on a bipartisan basis through the Senate Judiciary Committee.…”