Michel Temer Quotes

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

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

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

I became the prime minister of Pakistan through votes, whereas five honourable judges sent me home.

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

England is the model from which impeachment has been borrowed.

I cannot agree to destroy the harmonious working of the Constitution for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President.

Are all the laws to go unexecuted and the government itself go to pieces, lest civil liberties be violated?

Let them impeach and be damned!

We’ve got to stop this. This is crazy. We’re about to impeach the President of the United States.

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.

A system that is built on checks and balances does not do well in an ideological climate.

I favor impeaching President O’Bama.

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.

The president has the power to sign or veto a bill. If he signs it, it becomes law. If he vetoes it, it does not become law. That's pretty much an absolute power, but if he signs a bill or vetoes a bill in return for a $100,000 payment, he's guilty of bribery and he can go to jail.

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

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.

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

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

You can't possibly know everything that's in those bills ... you have to trust the leadership.

I believe executive privilege should protect the President's conversations with key aides ... but on substantive matters of concern I do not believe executive privilege ought to exist.

Legislatures react. Executives initiate.

It is not the Congress's job to rubber stamp bad decisions [of the President.]

The President may be right in how he reads the Constitution. But he also may be wrong. And if he is wrong, who is there to tell him so? And if there is no one, the President, of course, is free to pursue his course of erroneous interpretations. What then becomes of our constitutional form of government?

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it.