Heather Cox Richardson Quotes

England is the model from which impeachment has been borrowed.

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

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.

Let them impeach and be damned!

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

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

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

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.

A President can obstruct justice and Congress has the full right to hold a President accountable for such law-breaking through impeachment. After a President leaves office, I believe they may be held accountable through the courts as well.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

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

The President is accountable only to the country.

[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.

It is not the Congress's job to rubber stamp bad decisions [of the President.]

…Impeachment is a political, rather than a legal proceeding.

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 president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

Every time a president invokes executive privilege, there are three relevant audiences he has to think about: the courts, Congress, and the public.

I think probably, you know, from my perspective, the folks who say a sitting president cannot be indicted have the better of the argument that the president can't be indicted - put, you know, through a criminal trial while he is president - and that the proper way to do it is to impeach him first, remove him, and then seek criminal prosecution.

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.

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

It's not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.