Quotes about Presidential Investigation

Lawrence O'Brien

I’ve studied Nixon since the Kennedy campaign. I’ve no doubt that the trail will lead to the Oval Office.

He was the first to accuse Nixon

Neal Katyal

Everything having to do with President Trump and Russia, whether it is Mr. Trump's demand for an investigation into the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller, or whether Mr. Trump will testify, requires an answer to one essential background question: Can Mr. Mueller seek to indict the president?

Tom Harkin

Isn’t that a sweetheart deal. The Attorney General is appointed by the President; then investigates the President.

Under public pressure resulting from Harkin and other legislators’ complaints, Ashcroft was forced to appoint a special prosecutor and withdraw from the case. The special prosecutor verified that the leak had come from the administration and prosecuted the Vice President’s Chief of Staff for lying before a grand jury and covering up the scandal.

Neal Katyal

The idea that the special counsel regulations, which were written to provide the public with confidence against a coverup, would empower an attorney general to restrict disclosure in an investigation of the president is a nonstarter.

Neal Katyal

It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and his family have a direct, concrete interest.

Neal Katyal

When it comes to investigating a president, the special counsel regulations I had the privilege of drafting in 1998-99 say that such inquiries have one ultimate destination: Congress.

Neal Katyal

Some commentators have attacked the special counsel regulations as giving the attorney general the power to close a case against the president, as Mr. Barr did with the obstruction of justice investigation into Donald Trump. But the critics' complaint here is not with the regulations but with the Constitution itself.

Tom Fitton

The more that is learned about Comey's involvement in the deep state's illicit targeting of President Trump, the more reason the American people must question both Comey's motives and his management as director of the FBI, the now-disgraced agency he headed before Trump fired him.

Vincent Bugliosi

In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.

John Kerry

The President has time to go to a rodeo but hasn’t got time to testify before the Presidential commission [investigating September 11.]

Bush and his aids claimed that the President’s important schedule could only accommodate that time. However, he spent hours at a rodeo, played golf, and spent many hours at fundraising dinners.

Bob Filner

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I own the soft impeachment.

Presidential Investigation Quotes