Richard Nixon Quotes

A President could be impeached only for an error of the heart, and not of the head.

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

It is now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth. In doing so, Bill Clinton not only committed perjury, he violated the public trust.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

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.

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

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.

[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

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.

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

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

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

Trump committed crimes. It's pretty clear. Although I'm not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility to act when you think - and there's ample evidence to show - that the president has been engaged in criminal conduct.

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

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

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

If a president makes a reasoned decision about what best serves the nation's interests, even if he turns out to be wrong, he has committed no impeachable offense. The Framers didn't intend, through impeachment, to transform such policy disputes or mistakes into high crimes.

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.

So it's a really sort of mixed issue but I think, no matter whether you're a Democrat or an independent or a Republican, the idea that a sitting president would attempt to leverage dirt on a political opponent from a foreign leader is just beyond the pale.

Over the last few years, we have seen too many politicians disregard the Constitution as they voted to increase the size and scope of government. I will use my legal experience gained as a federal attorney to hold them accountable.