(The ruling is) certainly not going to have any effect on the inquiry of impeachment. |
[(96 K/5 sec. AIFF or WAV sound) ] I'm interested in the evidence, not in what the president wants us to believe, ... We have a president who says, 'I am a liar. I am a perjurer.' That puts him in a very weak position internationally. |
[The coalition] is seeking modest changes to only a few extreme sections of the law, ... These changes will secure the important powers of the law while placing reasonable limits on their use. |
As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit. |
Could anyone look into the faces of (the founding fathers) and tell them it really doesn't matter that the president abused his power, lied to the American people, perjured himself and subverted the rule of law? Anyone who can answer yes to that question does not have the right to sit here today. |
Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days. |
For all his self-serving lie-detector tests, now and whatever else his lawyer spins in his favor, it will not erase the fact he misled and misled badly the lawful conduct of a police investigation. |
He has worked for each member to get elected, to be re-elected, and that is something members don't forget -- or forget at their own peril. |
He is so afraid of answering questions directly that even when they asked him about his oath of office, whether he took this particular oath of office, he couldn't simply say 'yes.' He had to explain it in the third person, |
I believe he should resign rather than bring further discredit on the House of Representatives, |
I can tell you as a United States attorney, serving under two presidents, that I would prosecute these cases because I did prosecute such cases, |
I commend you for standing up to the nonsense ... that you have had to put up with today. |
I don't see how he can do that because he has not denied the allegations so far. |
I think this creates further a credibility gap for the government, and it is certainly fortuitous this came out before final action is taken by Congress, |
I think we are really beyond that, ... Many members were upset by his evasive and crafty answers to the 81 questions. If he had just come out and answered them 'yes' or 'no,' even those that simply relate to the constitutional duty of the president to uphold the law, that he would have helped himself. I think things have moved well beyond that now. He is facing an imminent vote for impeachment, only the second president in history to be facing that. I think they are desperate right now. |