Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
889
AUTHOR:
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913– )
QUOTATION:
The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers [it] to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
ATTRIBUTION:
Representative GERALD R. FORD, remarks in the House, April 15, 1970, Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913.
