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…

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for…

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws?…

— Trey Gowdy

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

— 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

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very…

— Trey Gowdy

What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

— Trey Gowdy

I do not want to stay in Washington.

— Trey Gowdy

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

— 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…

— Trey Gowdy

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these…

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for…

— Trey Gowdy

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is…

— 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

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

— 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…

— Trey Gowdy

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.

— Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Trey Gowdy