Impeachment Quotes

“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“This is the week,
the primetime hearings on insurrection
and sedition,
our last chance to make known
and believed
the ugly truth of our last president,
the nefarious doings of his cohorts,
the insanity we all witnessed and went through,
the coup we just barely avoided.

It's now or never.

The jury is out,
the jury of public opinion.

The jury is us.”
― Shellen Lubin

“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus itself was threatened. Ordinary intra-mural and extra-mural leaking, to such duly constituted bodies as Congress, was getting out of hand. It was Kissinger who inaugurated the second front or home front of the war; illegally wiretapping the telephones even of his own staff and of his journalistic clientele. (I still love to picture the face of Henry Brandon when he found out what his hero had done to his telephone.) This war against the enemy within was the genesis of Watergate; a nexus of high crime and misdemeanour for which Kissinger himself, as Isaacson wittily points out, largely evaded blame by taking to his ‘shuttle’ and staying airborne. Incredibly, he contrived to argue in public with some success that if it were not for democratic distempers like the impeachment process his own selfless, necessary statesmanship would have been easier to carry out. This is true, but not in the way that he got newspapers like Rees-Mogg’s Times to accept.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump think they're super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They are so dumb, they don't even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

“If a criminal becomes a politician, it's the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too is the fault of the citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“As it drew nearer, excitement grew intense. Swarms of adventurers expecting the overthrow of the Government crowded into Washington.”
― Thomas Dixon Jr., The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

“When the sun goes down, the moon becomes the king of the sky.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The only people who try to deny the existence of Russian trolls are Russian trolls.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“The impeachment of President Trump demonstrated the corruption of the Republicans.”
― Steven Magee

“The impeachment of President Trump was an excellent example of how seedy a government can be.”
― Steven Magee

“The impeachment of President Trump confirmed the laws are insignificant.”
― Steven Magee

“and the reason why it took them so long to impeach him... or to start an impeachment trial, is because they had to find a crime that Trump committed that they were not also complicit in.”
― Jimmy Dore

“If one does not legally become president; then legally are they a president? ...or is the office actually unoccupied?”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“I have no allegiance to a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“I followed along with President Trump's impeachment and what I saw was akin to two groups of children ganging up on each other.”
― Steven Magee

“The impeachment of President Trump confirmed that the laws are meaningless.”
― Steven Magee

“Im-Peach-ment . . . needs to be changed in Websters dictionary to . . . Im-Plum-ment . . . because every time a destructive Dem mentions it they plummet in the polls”
― Kevin Kolenda

“Peacefully, and patriotically make your voices heard.”
― President Donald J. Trump

“Is President Trump going to be held accountable or is it just another political show that leads nowhere?”
― Steven Magee

“When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“No president in American history has ever been removed from office by way of a Senate impeachment trial. A two-thirds vote requirement for conviction requires a bipartisan buy-in, which will be very difficult to achieve unless there is significant popular support in the nation. Those conditions likely existed during the latter months of the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon, but he resigned in August 1974, thereby ending the impeachment process.”
― Donald A. Zinman