Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this morning during a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Attorney General appeared, and in an exchange I had with him, it culminated with my call upon him to resign his position as Attorney General. That is a very serious matter. I wish to take a few minutes to explain why, after long deliberation, I have come to this conclusion. I do believe it is the right decision and it is long overdue. I served as an attorney general of my State--an elected attorney general, not an appointed attorney general. I believe strongly the American people deserve a chief law enforcement officer who will be independent of political influence, who will be accountable to the law, and who will be transparent, particularly in his dealings with the Congress. Unfortunately, Attorney General Holder has failed on all of these counts. At his confirmation hearing in 2009 in front of the Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder said his Department of Justice would ``serve justice, not the fleeting interests of any political party.'' He also said he would seek to achieve a ``full partnership with this Committee and with Congress as a whole.'' I wish he had kept his word. Regrettably, he has not. In the past few weeks I have joined my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in our shock at news articles that have disclosed some of the most sensitive classified programs of our national security apparatus.…”