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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. -- Charles Ruff
I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table. -- Nancy Pelosi
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. -- Charles Ruff
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment. -- David Limbaugh
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried. -- Robert Torricelli
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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. -- Charles Ruff
Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents. -- Monica Crowley
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. -- Vincent Bugliosi
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. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. -- Anne Lamott
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place. -- Robert Dallek
I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. -- Barney Frank
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. -- Fred F. Fielding
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general. -- Wil S. Hylton
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' -- J. C. Watts
I own the soft impeachment. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time. -- Rocky Anderson
Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure. -- John Breaux
I salute the 51 congressmen who voted (for the impeachment complaints.) It's not over yet. There will always be hope. -- Corazon Aquino
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. -- Charlie Cook
No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice? -- George Mason
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else? -- George McGovern
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure. -- Rush Limbaugh
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same. -- Bob Barr
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons 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. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes. -- Meg Ryan
Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning. -- Linda McQuaig
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure. -- Rush Limbaugh

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