Absence Quote by Samantha Power

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

— Mitch Landrieu

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the…

— Asha Rangappa

There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw…

— George Stephanopoulos

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make…

— John Ashcroft

When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still…

— David Gregory

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

— Saxby Chambliss

The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

— Will Rogers

As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.

— Mark Meadows

“The only legitimate purpose of congressional investigations is to determine whether there should be legislation to deal with certain problems and how that legislation…

— David Horowitz

There's not an American that would want to be investigated by someone they passed over for their old job back within the last 24 hours.

— Matt Gaetz

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

— Susan Rice

We, the FBI, don't investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. When it turns to violence, we're all over it.

— Christopher A. Wray