James Madison Quotes

Impeachment of the Chief Executive is essential to avoid political assassination when the Executive has rendered himself obnoxious

[The impeachment power] is the heaviest piece of artillery in the congressional arsenal, but because it is so heavy it is unfit for ordinary use.

If you’re going to remove a President from office and overturn a national election, you had better be sure that it’s ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

Let them impeach and be damned!

An impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

I want to be very honest, that I believe impeachment is a very big step - I believe it is something that should not be taken lightly - and it has to be something where we bring people along.

Every time I've talked about impeachment, I've said we've got to connect the dots, we've got to get the facts, we've got to do the investigation. That is what leads to impeachment and I also said that Donald Trump will lead us right there.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

Impeachment was not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the state….

President Truman must be impeached and convicted.

Impeachment is a dangerous measure that could easily lead to instability.

The great problem is how to discharge presidents who have outlived their usefulness to the country

[Impeachment is a] method of national inquest into the conduct of public men.

The government bodies known to you have presented me a resignation demand. Taking into account that the execution of the constitutional power of the president in the situation that has been created could pose serious danger to the stability of the country, I accept that demand and announce my resignation.

The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive.

The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has become a constitutional imperative.

We often get impeachment inquiries or moves for impeachment inquiries on one president or another, and it doesn't go anywhere.

If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.

Impeachment is not a Constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a Constitutional crisis.

A President could be impeached only for an error of the heart, and not of the head.

If the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him.