Chairman Quote by Jay Leno

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

— Richard M. Nixon

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

— Jon Stewart

We know how to conduct an investigation with integrity.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

— Ken Cuccinelli

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed…

— Adam Cohen

“As the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza put it in a December 2013 article, instead of providing oversight, the Senate committee more often “treats senior…

— Glenn Greenwald

Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security.…

— Amy Poehler

While the DOJ and the SEC must be vigilant in investigating and prosecuting white-collar misconduct, we must also ensure that we are acting fairly…

— William Barr

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

— Hillary Clinton

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

— Saxby Chambliss

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

— Lord Byron

A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be…

— Jay Leno