Impeached Quotations

On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a decent argument that he didn't. But if the president has a decent argument, he can't be impeached for getting it wrong.

I think there's going to be an urge by the majority to demonstrate that they can produce legislation, not just impeachments and trials, ... And the president clearly is going to want to show that there's something more to his legacy than having been impeached and tried.

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.

We're going to get the troops back, and we're going to get George Bush impeached this year.

Because of politics, the House majority party has impeached the president because they could do it, because they had the power to do it and without making an effective case for it,

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

The President will not be impeached because of alleged election irregularities.

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

The party that had nominated Clinton in 1992 eventually impeached him, thanks in good part to information supplied by GOP investigators.