| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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. |
| SUBJECTS: | Impeachment |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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