Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, Mr. Hoyer mocked that the process is tainted, that the process is being run like it might be run in the Soviet Union, not in the United States of America. It has never been done like that before. And you talk about Trey Gowdy, as if we were looking around for something to impeach a President on. We weren't. You had four Americans die. There are a lot of questions that still haven't been answered about why those Americans died. And all of us should be concerned about what happened at Benghazi. To ridicule the fact that there were eight hearings on something so alarming? Nobody was fishing around, looking-- By the way, we never tried to impeach the President over anything. All of the things that we disagreed with him on, none of those. Even times when he would sign executive orders that circumvented the law, and we would challenge him in the court, and we won a number of those court cases, but that doesn't mean it rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. And so we never went down that road. But maybe some, in some part of a base, want to see impeachment, no matter what. And some have said that. Some in your own party have said they just want to impeach the President because if they don't, he will get reelected. That has been said by members of your party. That is not why you impeach a President, because you think he is going to get reelected. The American people make that determination next year. We have had investigation after investigation.…”