77 Quotes by Trey Gowdy

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

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

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

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

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.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.