Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy IIIis an American attorney, politician and former prosecutor. He currently serves as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party. His district includes much of the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville and Spartanburg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
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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!
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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.
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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.
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There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
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The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
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You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.
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I listen to Gov. Romney have to apologize because he has been successful.
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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.
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I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.
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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.
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Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
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I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.
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When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.
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I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.