Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman, but I don't think the question has been answered. Because the gentleman says the committee has a responsibility, and I agree. But the committee has a responsibility to be responsible, and it is highly irresponsible. It is reckless and dangerous for the committee to start impeachment proceedings when there is nothing to impeach the President on. We were in the majority when the President of the United States was somebody we had a lot of disagreements with. We never filed Articles of Impeachment or talked about impeaching the President because there was nothing to impeach the President on. We never did that. We might have disagreed with them on a lot of things, but there were no committee hearings where the chairman said: This is formal impeachment proceedings, with nothing to impeach the President on. If he does something years down the road when he gets reelected, you know, this is not the time to go and try to harass the President when there is nothing that you have found--and you have looked. There has been this witch hunt going on for years. It didn't yield what you were hoping for it to yield. We all should have applauded when the Mueller report said that there was no collusion. But instead of closing it out, there is still--I guess he says, by the end of the year he wants to move Articles of Impeachment. So I guess that means they have drafted it up and are hoping to find something to fill in the blanks.…”