High Crimes and Misdemeanors Quotes

I ordered that they use any means necessary, including illegal means, to accomplish this goal. . . . The president of the United States can never admit that.

I rise to perform a painful but, nevertheless, to me, an imperative duty; a duty which I think ought not longer to be postponed, and which cannot, without criminality on our part, be neglected.… I charge Andrew Johnson, Vice President and acting President of the United States, with the commission of acts which in contemplation of the Constitution, are high crimes and misdemeanors, for which, in my judgment, he ought to be impeached … I do impeach Andrew Johnson, Vice President and acting President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors: I charge him with a usurpation of power and violation of law: In that he has corruptly used the appointing power; In that he has corruptly used the pardoning power; In that he has corruptly used the veto power; In that he has corruptly disposed of public property of the United States; In that he has corruptly interfered in elections…

I favor impeaching President O’Bama.

An impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.

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

If you’re going to remove a President from office and overturn a national election, you had better be sure that it’s ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

The son of a bitch should be impeached.

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.

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.

Trump committed crimes. It's pretty clear. Although I'm not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility to act when you think - and there's ample evidence to show - that the president has been engaged in criminal conduct.

Let them impeach and be damned!

A President could be impeached only for an error of the heart, and not of the head.

[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 now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth. In doing so, Bill Clinton not only committed perjury, he violated the public trust.

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

Impeachment of the President is not enough. Obama should be hung, drawn and quartered…. [Even that] is probably too good for him.

President Truman must be impeached and convicted.

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.

Impeachment was not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the state….

It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.

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.

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.