Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I have heard Member after Member get up on the other side and say this is not about sex. Let us make one thing very perfectly clear, the roots of this impeachment action are in fact in a sexual deed. I was reading Andre Maurois the other day, who said the path that leads from moral standards to political activity is strewn with our dead selves. There is a lesson in that for all for all of us. This impeachment process is a partisan political activity. Do not make a mistake about it. What the President did was wrong. His conduct was reprehensible. It was appalling and, most of all, to those of us who have worked with him, it is disappointing. But just as every crime does not justify the death penalty, neither should impeachment, the political equivalent of the death penalty, be the punishment for every presidential misdeed. The President of the United States had a consensual extramarital sexual relationship and did not want to divulge that to the public or to his political enemies. Is the President guilty of bribery or treason or other high crimes which threaten the future of our Republic? Absolutely, positively not. We all agree the President should not be above the law. However, just because he has been elected to the Office of President does not mean he should be below the law either. He should have the same treatment that every other American does.”