Evan Mecham Quotes

If the great servants of the public forget their duty, betray their trust and sell their country, or make war against the most valuable rights and privileges of the people; reason and justice require that they should be discarded, and others appointed in their room, without any regard to formal resignations of their forfeited power.

unconstitutional, unnecessary, extrajudicial

Impeachment of the Chief Executive is essential to avoid political assassination when the Executive has rendered himself obnoxious

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

The essence of good government is trust.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Having found, from experience, that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they consider themselves secure for life; they skulk from responsibility to public opinion.

A President could be impeached only for an error of the heart, and not of the head.

I have never seen conduct of the Federal Government so egregious.

I would rather see this administration turned out for enforcing laws can see a succeed for violating them.

Such a trial is not only unlawful but is a gross blunder in policy. It denies the great, fundamental principle, that ours is a government of Law, and that the law is strong enough to rule the people wisely and well.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

An investigation in which the processes of law-making and law-evaluating are submerged entirely in exposure of individual behavior—in adjudication, of a sort, through the exposure process—is outside the constitutional pale of congressional inquiry.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

That could have been a very successful Presidency had President Nixon really believed in our system.

One of the best magistrates as minister, and a good sharp thief-taker for [foreign] secretary

When legislation is rewritten in secret and passed without members even present, let alone voting ... something is wrong.