Winston Churchill Quotes
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
President Clinton had engaged in sex with an intern in the Oval Office and lied about it in investigations. Clinton had been an embarrassment anathema to the Republicans by producing a remarkably strong economy without cutting taxes, reducing government deficits, cutting the size of government, winning the Serbian war without a single American soldier dying, and preempting many of their programs. So the Republicans who controlled both Houses of Congress decided to impeach Clinton for the lies. Wexler argued that there was no damage done to the nation and the sex and lying did not rise to the required level of an impeachable offense. On a party line vote, Clinton was impeached, but the Republicans could not even get the majority of the Senate which they controlled. Most senators agreed with Wexler. See {583801} for a later summary of the absurdity of impeaching Clinton who left office as one of the most popular presidents in modern times.
Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
