Best Trey Gowdy Quotes & Sayings

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source. — Trey Gowdy

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

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

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

I do not want to stay in Washington. — Trey Gowdy

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor. — Trey Gowdy

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

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. — Trey Gowdy

What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part? — Trey Gowdy

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy? — Trey Gowdy

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

It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly ... mind-numbingly stupid. — Trey Gowdy

The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress. — Trey Gowdy

Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections. — Trey Gowdy

Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable. — Trey Gowdy

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

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. — Trey Gowdy

I am not surprised that the President of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised that Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said that Benghazi happened 'a long time ago.' I'm just surprised at how many people bought it. — Trey Gowdy

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

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. — Trey Gowdy

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. — Trey Gowdy

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

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption. — Trey Gowdy

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep. — Trey Gowdy

I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her. — Trey Gowdy

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk. — Trey Gowdy

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! — Trey Gowdy

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts. — Trey Gowdy

I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern. — Trey Gowdy