Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

a drunken Democrat who the Republicans dragged out of the Galena gutter, besmeared with the blood of his countrymen slain in domestic broil, ... rules ... over the prostrate ruins of Washington's Republic.

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.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

The press, that distinguished appendage of public liberty … has been invariably prostituted …

It is the curse of the Labor movement that, as soon as it has acquired a certain “power,” it seeks to enlarge this power by unprincipled means. Social-Democracy also was originally “pure” in almost all countries. Most Social-patriots of today were real Marxists. By Marxist propaganda the masses were won, and as soon as the party gained “power,” they [the principled means] were abandoned.

In order for a corrupt system to prevail, numerous other rights are likely to be restricted in the areas of political participation and access to justice. The need for the corrupt to protect themselves and their cronies undermines the electoral process, leads to intimidation and manipulation of the press and compromises the independence of the judiciary …. Especially disturbing is the impunity that covers up so many of these acts.

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.

Nixon clearly broke laws. He clearly believed he needed to stay in power to protect the country. But he recognized that he was breaking the law, and he tried to cover it up.

Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

This impeachment narrative started before President Trump was even nominated to the Repub - as the Republican candidate.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

Neither an almost $35 million Mueller investigation, ending in an exonerating report, nor a sham impeachment effort could deter Trump from moving forward with the business of the American people.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

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.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.