Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, clearly, as the gentleman knows, it is the Senate's job to try the House's case. If the House failed to make its case, that is the House's fault. To suggest that the Senate needs to mop up the mess that was done here because there was not fairness, because both sides didn't get the opportunity, if one side wants to say, ``I have a case to make. I am going make my case, but I am not going to let them make theirs, and I am not going to let them call their witnesses,'' and we had a long list of witnesses we wanted to call that we were denied. You are in the majority. You get to make the rules. If that is what you want to call fair, you can, but it is not. The Senate has it, but it was all done according to the majority out of urgency. That is the word we heard over and over again. If the gentleman wanted to have other people come to testify, the President and every President exerts executive privilege, so if the standard is a President exerting executive privilege equates to obstruction of Congress, then you would have to retroactively go back and impeach every President, including George Washington. Exerting executive privilege is not an obstruction of Congress. Congress can have a disagreement with the President. We have surely had disagreements with previous Presidents exerting executive privilege when we were in the majority. You fight those out in the courts. The gentleman is well aware of that.…”