Impeach Quotes

“And in a world where the Constitution makes the president all-powerful—in charge of the world’s largest treasury and the world’s strongest army—an unconstrained presidency is a constitutional monstrosity.”
― Neal Katyal, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump

“Federalist No. 68, written by Alexander Hamilton, warned that the “most deadly adversaries of republican government” would come “chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” “How could they better gratify this,” he added, “than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?”
― Neal Katyal, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump

“But if you weren’t convinced by Mueller’s report, if you believe President Trump’s actions in 2016 did not warrant impeachment, then this book is for you. Because the proven facts of what President Trump has done with Ukraine far eclipse the allegations of his campaign’s coordination with Russia in 2016. Whereas Mueller’s report could not prove collusion, in this case there is no doubt President Trump tried to collude with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine—because we have notes from the call, released by President Trump himself, demonstrating our president doing exactly that.”
― Neal Katyal, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump

“James A. Baker III, George H. W. Bush’s chief of staff, recalled a day in October 1992 when President Bush was approached by four Republican members of Congress who had an idea for how he could win reelection. “They told him the only way to win was to hammer his challenger Bill Clinton’s patriotism for protesting the Vietnam War while in London and visiting Moscow as a young man,” Baker writes. Bush didn’t reject the idea out of hand; in fact, he thought it might work. But when Baker heard that the only way to reveal this information would be to “contact the Russians or the British,” he realized that the administration “absolutely could not do that.” Why would someone as canny and strategic as Baker be so opposed to the idea of asking a foreign power to help his boss win an election? Because opposition to foreign interference in our elections is as old as America itself.”
― Neal Katyal, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump