Peter Welch actually said...

"I very much appreciate that it takes strong people of independent judgment to make certain that we continue to be a Nation of laws."

"You had to make a call that was based upon your view of the law, not your view of how it would affect the outcome of who would be the next Commander in Chief."

"The prosecutor has really awesome power. The power to prosecute is the power to destroy and it has to be used with restraint."

"That's politics, that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion."