Trey Gowdy

You have already said multiple times today that there was no evidence that you found of any criminal wrongdoing.

If it's true and it applies to a taxpayer, it ought to apply to the IRS as well.

I think we are doing a real disservice to the concept of prosecutorial discretion, and I think we are doing a disservice to our Republic.

Our politics may differ... we still respect the rule of law.

The fact that after spending nearly $1.5 trillion, we will still have 31 million Americans uninsured by 2024.

I will say that I enjoyed our meeting together and certainly you come before us with a great reputation.

It seems to me that the number 8 million people signed up for Obamacare, when you multiply that by the 80 percent who have actually paid, it brings that number down significantly.

The numbers, fuzzy Washington math, the $1.4 trillion price tag between now and 2015-24.

When he said his government suspected that former Qadhafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him that the group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic extremists.

If your mantra really is that we used the best facts and the best evidence we had at the time, then cite the facts for me.

the goal was to do everything we can to deflect attention away from this feckless foreign policy we have in the Middle East that isn't working.

I am confounded, in fact I continue to be confounded, and what I find so confounding is the administration's mantra hasn't changed...

I'm glad that this is dated September 14, 2012, Mr. Chairman, because it sure as hell was not their goal before September 11.

your boss's budget got a whopping two votes in the last two times it was offered.

I can't help but think, Mr. Secretary, his budget, his budget passed.

I just think you are putting your AUSAs in a tough position, but as is always the case, I could be wrong.

I wish the President would also follow your advice because when he said there is not a smidgen of corruption on national television talking about an ongoing investigation, not only did he undermine people's confidence in the efficacy of…

Your Department is asked to enforce certain statutes, Title 18 statutes. You have prosecutorial discretion.

But you do not have discretion on whether to follow the law or not. That is my point.

I think he should have taken a pass and said the exact same thing that you said when Jimmy Jordan just asked you the question.

But why not just exercise your prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the case period?

But we are wonderful friends I think, in part, because we hold out this hope that the law will trump politics, that it is the greatest equalizing force in our country, and it is the greatest unifying force in our country.

I would just ask you under this general heading of respect for the rule of law that you would come to like-minded Members of the Judiciary Committee and say we need to expand the safety valve because we have a law that does what your memo…

Doesn't that make more sense?

We would have to trust the Libyan Government and Administration to appropriately vet which Libyans would be allowed to learn to fly planes and study nuclear technology.