I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on the side of life, which we have, ... And now we'll watch the courts make their decisions.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.