Political Quotes

“nearly 20 years ago, I was here in this exact spot--I remember it so well--deliberating the guilt or innocence of a President. It happens that at that time, it was President Clinton from your State of Arkansas. At that time, I said that I thought it would probably be the most important vote I would cast as a Senator. I was wrong. I think my vote on Wednesday--the day after tomorrow--to acquit President Trump will be the most important vote of my career. I really believe that. Over the past few weeks, as we have considered impeachment, there has been a lot made of the fact that I was willing to vote to convict President Clinton 20 years ago and yet to vote the other way in the current process we are under right now. Putting the morality question from President Clinton aside, this supposed debate highlights the central point of the differences in the impeachment process and why President Trump should not be impeached. Before Clinton was even impeached, he admitted to the crime of perjury. This is a big difference because we have a President right now who has not admitted that. In fact, there have not really been accusations of a crime. Our debate then was about whether perjury was a high crime or misdemeanor. I believe it was. As I said then, the President should be held to the highest standard. But that was substantially different than the question before us today. The question put to us by the House managers is an evidentiary one.…”