"I'm a little disappointed that Obama has appointed lots of people who have played parts in getting us in the fiasco we're currently in."
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Since so many are Clintonistas we may as well take a fond look Back to the Future:
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Clinton Quotes
How felt about impeachment and "what's an impeachable offense"
Clinton Quotations, Campaign, Impeachment, and Citizens Rights Aug 8, 1974 Put together by DaiHuy with the help of WJC
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, 1974
FLIPPIN -- United States Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison is wrong in opposing President Nixon's resignation and is wrong in questioning whether the president has committed an impeachable offense, Bill Clinton of Fayetteville, Hammerschmidt's opponent, said here Wednesday.
In the wake of the president's admission Monday that he had lied about his role in the Watergate cover-up, Hammerschmidt said, "We need to do our duty as quickly as possible. We should have done it a year ago."
"I don't see how in the world he can say that when a year ago he was saying we should forget about it and he voted against giving funds for the House Judiciary Committee staff," Clinton said.
Hammerschmidt flatly opposed resignation. "I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of this impeachment and removal proceeding," Clinton said. "I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if he'd go on and resign."
Hammerschmidt said after the president's revelations Monday he was not sure whether Mr. Nixon's actions legally were impeachable.
Clinton, a law professor at the University of Arkansas, said there was "no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense."
Hammerschmidt's statement "puts him out of step with all the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who voted against impeachment" before the Monday revelations and now are "calling for resignation because of clear and direct evidence of an impeachable offense," Clinton said.
Clinton said he was campaigning hard across the Third Congressional District and was "pleased with the response I'm getting."
Although it's "hard to raise money in July and August for a November campaign, especially after the very expensive primaries," Clinton said, "so far I've made all my expenses and our planning is going along well."
Reprinted from the Arkansas Gazette, Aug. 8, 1974
Other Clinton quotes and fun
"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."
-- President William Clinton, March 1, 1993 during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ source: Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3
" Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system."
- Presidential candidate Bill Clinton, describing his opponent
(Federal News Service, 10/28/92)
"There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election."
-- Presidential candidate Bill Clinton describing his opponent, George Bush (Quoted in the American Spectator, 10/28/92)
"The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth."
-- Bill Clinton from a speech at the University of Connecticut, Oct 15, 1997.
"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."
- Bill Clinton, 1995 (After the OKC bombing)
"A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military."
- Bill Clinton, 1969 (Letter to the National Guard)
"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable."
-- Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996, in a speech endorsing a national effort against teen pregnancy.
Bill Clinton talking about the need for Nixon to leave office: "Bill Clinton, Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, said, 'There is nothing left to say. There's no point putting this country through an impeachment since [Nixon] isn't making any pretense of innocence now... This country has suffered to long."
-- The ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, August 6, 1974, page 10-A,
"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign."
- Bill Clinton July, 1974
" the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people"
-- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
- Bill Clinton, May 29, 1993, The White House |
