Political Quotes

“many of the President's actions were wrong. In fact, they were indefensible. But our role today is not to attack him. Our role today is to make sure that this process is defensible. And this is not a defensible process. This Chamber spent a day, a little more than a day, debating renaming an airport, and we are spending 2 hours on deciding the future of this Presidency. That is unfair. There should be an inquiry; we should move on. But it has to be fair, and what we are seeing today is not fair, it is not focused. We have a report from Kenneth Starr. We should focus our inquiry on the report and any subsequent matters Ken Starr brings us. We should have a target date of completion. We should aim to finish this by December 31. And if we cannot get it done, we can ask for an extension, and that can happen. But the American people want this to be a fair process, and they are not stupid, and they recognize that this is not a fair process. The President may be punished, the President should be held accountable for his actions, but we have a duty, each and every person in this Chamber has a duty, to do that in a fair way. And I think each of us has to examine our conscience and ask whether we want to have a wide-ranging fishing expedition or whether we want to focus it on the report that has been brought to us and any subsequent matters the special prosecutor brings to us.”