Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for Professor Dershowitz on behalf of myself and Senators McSally and Moran. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question for counsel to the President, directed to Professor Dershowitz, by Senators Wicker, McSally, and Moran, is this: Professor Dershowitz: You stated during your presentation that the House grounds for impeachment amount to the ``most dangerous precedent.'' What specific danger does this impeachment pose to our republic? To its citizens? Mr. Counsel DERSHOWITZ. Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. Thank you, Senators. I came of age during the period of McCarthyism. I then became a young professor during the divisive time of the Vietnam war. I, as you, lived through the division during the Iraq war and 9/11 and following 9/11. I have never lived at a more divisive time in the United States of America than today. Families have broken up. Friends don't speak to each other. Dialogue has disappeared on university campuses. We live in extraordinarily dangerous times. I am not suggesting that the impeachment decision by the House has brought that on us. Perhaps it is merely a symptom of a terrific problem that we have facing us and likely to face us in the future. I think it is the responsibility of this mature Senate, whose job it is to look forward, whose job it is to ensure our future, to make sure the divisions don't grow even greater.…”