Tom Fitton Quotes

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

One party should not have the power to impeach the President of the other party.

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

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.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Washington lawyers and politicians have been bedfellows from the moment our nation was conceived.

If I could only be President and Congress too, for just 10 minutes.

The whole power of the national government is gradually but surely passing under the complete control of our Presidents.

For the first thirty years it [the House of Representatives] was the controlling branch of the government, and the one of whose action the public eye was fixed.

The framers of the Constitution did not entrust this House with the power to impeach the President of the United States in order to establish this body as a court of personal morality.

Congress has a lot of powers which people, especially those in the executive branch, don't like to talk about.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law; but the maker of the law may commit something to the discretion of the other departments, and the precise boundary of this power is a subject of delicate and difficult inquiry.

The Presidency is for four years, but the Supreme Court is forever.

We elect our presidents to protect U. S. national interests.

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

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

What I reject, out of hand, is the idea that by 5 to 4 Supreme Court judges can rewrite the Constitution, but it takes two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate and three-fourths of the States to equal 5 judges.

If the Vice President were not to be President of the Senate, he would be without employment.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

The speakership isn't a dictatorship.