Mark Sanford Quotes
I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.
The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.
Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford, Jr., Governor of South Carolina, U. S. Congressman (Republican, SC), Comment on the William Clinton Sex Scandal, Quoted in The Post and Courier, September 12, 1998
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Usually, a prominent politician sending love notes to a mistress does not make for a notable quotation. However, in this bizarre instance, his passion was so great that he went to Argentina without telling his staff of the Lieutenant Governor where he was going. He disappeared for almost a week and the state was left without a chief executive. When he returned amidst the scandal, he refused to resign. That in itself was noteworthy when he had earlier called for the resignation of President William Clinton for sexual indiscretions which did not even affect the government as his indiscretions did. See {628239}.
Clinton later admitted to fallatio, claimed he was referring to sexual intercourse, and apologized for misleading the American people.
The Republican Controlled House of Representatives impeached Clinton without a single Democratic vote. The Senate rejected the House blatant political maneuver and while 2/3 of the Senate was required for conviction, the Impeachment forces could not even get a majority in the most farcical impeachment in American History.
Nixon’s remark {583773} had been suppressed by the Nixon family and McGovern and the world first heard it 40 years after the fact.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
This quotation was ridiculed at the time. Virginia had very lax political ethical laws and regulations for politicians and in that year, both the Republican Governor and the Republican Attorney General had accepted large gifts from businessmen of the state which in other states would have been considered as bribes and be illegal. The rules in Virginia were so lax, that expensive gifts were given to members of politician’s family. In one case that year, a businessman paid for the Governor’s daughter’s expensive wedding. With both houses of the state legislature also in Republican hands, there was no oversight or investigations. It was only though the efforts of the press that the facts emerged. Howell did not say or do anything about the situation. Although in 2013 it was Republicans who were corrupt, the same lax rules had prevailed for years and when they were in power the Democrats made no effort to tighten the ethics laws and rules.
- Born: May 28, 1960
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Politician
Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford Jr. is an American politician and author. A Republican, Sanford is a former governor of South Carolina and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
