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Quotes About Obstruction

The Mueller Report spelled it out clearly. Trump told Comey to lay off Michael Flynn; when Comey didn't, Trump fired Comey. Trump tried to undermine Mueller, and then he ordered McGahn to oust the prosecutor; then Trump told McGahn to lie about it. These were illegal acts—in conception and execution. These were crimes, even if Mueller stopped short of saying that they were.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Mueller's report, if read carefully, establishes that Trump committed several acts of criminal obstruction of justice. The impeachment proceedings against both Nixon and Clinton were rooted in charges of obstruction of justice, and Trump's offenses were even more extensive and enduring.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
His boots crunched behind me. "And stop following me!" I yelled over my shoulder. "I'm not following you.Stop walking in front of me.
~ Jennifer Echols
De meeste schaduw in dit leven veroorzaken we door in ons eigen zonlicht te gaan staan.
~ Emerson Ralph 1831-1914
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
~ Émile Zola
There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.
~ Eoin Colfer
So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.
~ Epictetus
to block his way. "What
~ Andrew Gross
corpus as with mens, and found the same difficulties with both: a lack
~ Andrew Hodges
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
~ Maurice Strong
While Democrats spent the year of 2019 obstructing, President Trump spent the year achieving.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way.
~ Michael J. Knowles
I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.
~ Benjamin Wittes
In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
~ Bert Lance
Trump's pardon of Arpaio may not get as much attention as Russian influence or Trump's apparent obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. But to me, as a woman of color, it is a clear abuse of power for the U.S. president to pardon a sheriff who targeted people for arrest because of their ethnicity.
~ Rashida Tlaib
Do we want our state to be defined by the bankrupt and intolerant values of Donald Trump? Do we want the values of hyperpartisanship and obstruction that we see in the tea party Congress that Steve Pearce has embraced?
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
~ David Plouffe
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
~ Elbert Hubbard
My memory is again in the way of your history
~ Agha Shahid Ali
Mitch McConnell's innovation was in using it constantly to slow down things that did have bipartisan support, just to make sure as little as possible happened that Obama could get credit for. You
~ Al Franken
I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
~ Derek Walcott
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."
~ Tom Clancy
He can't hear you. His ears are full of shit
~ Andrzej Sapkowski