Quotes about Presidential Removal

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If something awful happens to the President, we’ll get another President.

Jacob Zuma

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

Robert Dallek

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.

Patrick Leahy

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.’

Ivo Daalder

I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.

Naomi Klein

Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

Neal Katyal

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

The reigning conservatives in the House and Senate felt a relief that they did not try to conceal at the fact that I was not to remain as President.

Although Roosevelt was the most popular American president since George Washington, the right wing of his own party hated him. He had pledged not to run for a 3rd term and his 2nd was close to ending.

Bianca Jagger

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

Peter Hakim

In the past decade, nearly a dozen elected Latin American presidents have been forced from office.

Reza Aslan

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

James Madison

... the decisive engine of impeachment.

Richard Painter

If President Trump will not remove White House officials who are clearly violating the law, he's not doing his job and this would be yet another grounds for Congress considering impeaching and removing the president.

Emile Lahoud

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Ramsey Clark

Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

Edmund Gibson Ross

Conditions may, and are not unlikely to arise, some day, when the exercise of the power to impeach and remove the President may be quite as essential to the preservation of our political system as it threatened to become in this instance destructive of that system. Should that day ever come, it is to be hoped that the remedy of impeachment, as established by the Constitution, may be as patriotically, as fearlessly, and as unselfishly applied as it was on this occasion rejected..

He cast the deciding vote to acquit in the Andrew Johnson impeachment. He was the last of only 7 Republicans voting to acquit. His vote meant there would not be the required two/thirds of the Senate to vote in order to remove Johnson from office. His constituents were so angry with him that he was never reelected.

Alexander Haig

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Lloyd Cutler

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

Bob Livingston

We’ve got to stop this. This is crazy. We’re about to impeach the President of the United States.

Livingston could not stop the process, which had built up a momentum of its own among most Republicans. The debate went on, and, despite public opinion favoring the President, on a highly partisan party line vote Clinton was impeached by the house. The impeachment, only the second in U. S. history, then failed in the Senate.

Ann Coulter

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

Iceland

The President may be removed from office before his term expires if approved by a majority vote in a plebiscite called pursuant to a resolution adopted by three-fourths of the Members of Althingi [the Parliament.]

The Islandic impeachment process requires that the voters make the final decision as to the charges against the President. However, unlike some American “recall” states, the voters may not initiate a plebiscite; it must be initiated by the legislature with a ¾ majority.

Bill Kristol

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

Birch Bayh

The key question is who determines if a President is unable to perform his duties?

Thad Cochran

Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that in debate... Some have suggested censure. I think it is certainly a possibility that the Senate will decide on some alternative to removing the president from office.

Presidential Removal Quotes