I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

- Trey Gowdy

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

- Trey Gowdy

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.

- Trey Gowdy

It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.

- Trey Gowdy

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

- Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

- Trey Gowdy

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

- Trey Gowdy

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

- Trey Gowdy

I listen to Gov. Romney have to apologize because he has been successful.

- Trey Gowdy

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

- Trey Gowdy

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

- Trey Gowdy

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

- Trey Gowdy

The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

- Trey Gowdy

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

- Trey Gowdy

There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.

- Trey Gowdy

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

- Trey Gowdy

You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

- Trey Gowdy

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.

- Trey Gowdy

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.

- Trey Gowdy

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

- Trey Gowdy