Charles Ruff Quotes

I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

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

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.

According to the weight of opinion, impeachable offenses include, not merely acts that are indictable, but serious misbehavior which may be considered as coming within the category of high crimes and misdemeanors

President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit.

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

After reviewing all of the evidence and witness testimony in this investigation, I believe that President Trump abused his power and obstructed Congress, and I will vote for both articles of impeachment.

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

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.

President Truman must be impeached and convicted.

Richard Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of Constitutional Government, to the great prejudice of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the U. S.

Trump's narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires. He's so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation. It's why he was impeached, and why he should have been removed from office.

There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.

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.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

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.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

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.

[Referring to Richard Nixon:] There are frightening implications for the future of our country if we do not impeach the President of the United States ... If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent with reasonable expectations of the American people.

I just knew in my heart that it was not right for Dick Nixon to ever be the President of this country.

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

The son of a bitch should be impeached.

Impeachment is a dangerous measure that could easily lead to instability.