Famous Quotes and Proverbs

«The President's grand jury testimony and televised address have raised renewed speculation about future actions of the Congress and the House Judiciary Committee in particular. If the Independent Counsel has any substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment, he has an explicit statutory duty to send a report to the House. If and when the Independent Counsel sends such a report, it is reasonable to expect answers to many as yet unanswered questions. It is our Constitutional duty to provide a fair, full and independent review of these facts in their proper context. Until then, we simply should not speculate about how the House would proceed.»

«We went over a series of suggested redactions concerning personal data, irrelevancies embarrassing things that have no relation to the subject of what we're looking at, ... It's laborious, but we made a lot of progress.»

«Now we have heard from academia ... we're going to have more of the seminar tomorrow, ... But I will listen most intently to see if anybody, anybody, repudiates, rejects, rebuts the facts that have been contained and will soon again be housed in these boxes.»

«The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions, ... Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.»

«The only purpose for this being dredged up now is an obvious attempt to intimidate me, and it won't work,»

«I don't think indicting and criminally trying him after what we have all been through is going to be helpful to the country,»

«We're at the stage in the impeachment trial in the Senate where we're going to be required to produce a list of witnesses that we want, ... Monica Lewinsky is, of course, the most important witness in this whole drama.»

«The president will get copy number three. He will get it as soon as we get it and as soon as the American people get it. He's not caught by surprise. He's the party of the first part, he knows what's in the report better than anybody on the planet, but to give the spin machine an opportunity to be the first impact on the American people before we the members have seen this report -- it's not bipartisanship, it's foolishness.»

«In response to the request of the speaker of the House, I have directed the House Judiciary Committee staff to begin a preliminary inquiry into the tactics employed in the seizure of Elian Gonzalez by federal authorities,»

«The House managers have decided that they need to talk to Ms. Lewinsky before making a recommendation to the Senate to depose her, ... The action of the House managers is not unusual. It is not unfair, and it is not contrary to the rules of the Senate.»