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The idea that the special counsel regulations, which were written to provide the public with confidence against a coverup, would empower an attorney general…

— Neal Katyal

When it comes to investigating a president, the special counsel regulations I had the privilege of drafting in 1998-99 say that such inquiries have…

— Neal Katyal

Some commentators have attacked the special counsel regulations as giving the attorney general the power to close a case against the president, as Mr.…

— Neal Katyal

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want…

— Dee Dee Myers

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up…

— Fred Thompson

This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in…

— Jesse Helms

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

— Kerry Kennedy

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

— McGeorge Bundy

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they…

— Elihu Root

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

— Roger Cressey

We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy…

— Alberto Gonzales

I had to choose between the president and the Constitution. I was aware of the fact that I could be compelled to testify. But…

— Alexander Vindman