Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that the gentleman talks about fairness in the trial. It is quite rich of the Speaker to call for fairness in the Senate when she denied fairness in the House. You can look at House rules that require the minority gets a day of hearings on impeachment, and that rule was thrown out the window. The gentleman said an honest trial tries to elicit all the evidence. Of course, we had multiple witnesses we wanted to bring forward that were denied. Clearly, all the evidence didn't get out. I guess, by definition, it was not an honest trial in the House. I am confident they will have an honest and fair trial in the Senate. In fact, there are negotiations to make sure it will be fair. By the way, I want to make this point because when the impeachment proceedings were moving forward with President Nixon, it was a Democratic Congress that negotiated with the Nixon administration, with the Nixon White House, to determine a fair set of rules, and the House adopted those rules. That was a Democratic conference. Then, fast forward to the Clinton impeachment where you had a Democratic President and a Republican House. The House negotiated with the White House to come up with fair rules. Ultimately, they adopted the Nixon standard because everybody agreed that was a fair process. Whether or not you like the outcome is one thing, but it was a fair process. That never happened here.…”