Political Quotes

“Your job is not to convict people. It is to do the right thing for the people of the State of Nevada, the city of Henderson, NV. That is a lesson somebody should have given Alberto Gonzales before he took the job as Attorney General. Dan Bogden was fired for doing his job exactly the way it is supposed to be done. When he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Gonzales couldn't even say why Bogden was included on the list to be fired. Think about that: A man's career ruined, and the man who fired him or had him fired didn't even know why he was fired. His lack of memory was astounding. He couldn't recall basic facts, even meetings with the President. Writing in the New York Times, Professor Frank Bowman, a former Federal prosecutor, said, talking about Gonzales: The truth is almost surely that Mr. Gonzales's forgetfulness is feigned--a calculated ploy to block legitimate congressional inquiry into questionable decisions made by the Department of Justice, White House officials, and, quite possibly, the President himself. If Albert Gonzales was not truthful with the Congress, he deserves to be fired--not Bogden but Gonzales. On the other hand, if the Attorney General was not involved in the decision to fire Bogden and others, he is guilty of gross negligence and deserves to be fired.”