Quotes from Trey Gowdy

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

I listen to Gov. Romney have to apologize because he has been successful.

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

I do not want to stay in Washington.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.

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

It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.