Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes

Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

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

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

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.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

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

The President is accountable only to the country.

The respect of the American people for the Congress has been increased. They can see the Congress as a vigilant Congress.

All persons who take part in government are accountable for their actions.

The Director of the FBI is paid to take risks where the security of the country is at stake.... What Hoover is doing here is putting himself above the President.

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

No branch of government should ever be able to combine the power of the sword with the power of the purse.

…Impeachment is a political, rather than a legal proceeding.

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

We have a Congress to serve the people who provide the money.

The great challenge to the White House is that nothing inconsequential every comes there.