Bob Barr Quotes

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

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.

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

The president cannot escape from his office.

It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

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

Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.

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

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

The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.

Impeachment is not a Constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a Constitutional crisis.

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.

I cannot agree to destroy the harmonious working of the Constitution for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President.

Let them impeach and be damned!

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

… the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it's wrong, and the President can be wrong.

I favor impeaching President O’Bama.

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.

I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.

Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?

We have learned Trump's disregard for the truth, and the rule of law is real.

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.

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.

I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.