N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

I have never seen conduct of the Federal Government so egregious.

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: “for reasons of state.”

It is a great impropriety for a President to use the power of his office to induce men in Congress to vote for or vote against a bill that will affect the welfare of ninety millions of people.

The Reagan people want four more years, but the way they're going some of them will get ten to twenty.

There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in its abuses.

Parading around the nation as a squeaky clean, crime-fighting G-man, J. Edgar Hoover, we now know, thoroughly abused the powers of his office and completely trampled on the individual rights of thousands of patriotic, law-abiding citizens.

When legislation is rewritten in secret and passed without members even present, let alone voting ... something is wrong.

Remember that J. Edgar Hoover’s secret files began in the interests of national security and ended up being used for blackmail.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse

[Commenting on Watergate:] Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the laws and investigative techniques we use in ordinary national security situations are woefully inadequate.