Political Quotes

“I would love to respond to that point briefly, if I could, please. What we have done is to effectively immunize this against impeachability--immunize making false statements. And going back to the original question, I don't know. Maybe aggravated, first-degree murder with heinous, atrocious, and cruel conduct as aggravators--maybe that is still a high crime or misdemeanor. That remains to be seen. But keep in mind, particularly with the fact that they already set aside article I--and they have already said that that is out of bounds, as well, for impeachability. The Supreme Court has said pretty much nobody has standing to address that. What are we left with? And getting back to the question from Senator Lummis, this is a phenomenally dangerous precedent to have set here, specifically with regard to false statements, because what does that do to our oversight hearings, where we rely, routinely, on testimony provided under oath by Cabinet Secretaries and other administration officials? What does that do? What incentive structure does that create? What perverse incentives does that create for them to lie?”