Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

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

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….

[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.

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

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.

Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

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

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

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

The occasion for the exercise of impeachment will arise from acts of great injury to the community.

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.

England is the model from which impeachment has been borrowed.

Impeach Earl Warren!

President Truman must be impeached and convicted.

[The new Federal Government] would either triumph over the state governments and reduce them to entire subordination or in the course of a few years … the contests about the boundaries of power between the particular [State] governments and the general government … will produce a dissolution of the union.

Simply eight young men … standing amidst the ruins of one administration with the foundation of another not yet laid …. No police were functioning through the country, no system of justice was operating, the wheels of the administration hung idle, battered out of recognition by the clash of rival jurisdictions.

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

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.

Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.