Latest Jason Chaffetz Quotes from Interviews

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• The White House and the president [Donald Trump] himself remains very worrisome, alarming, almost.

  Jason Chaffetz

  White, House, President

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• If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Thinking, Administration, Trump

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• The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Team, College, Winning

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• If you saw General [James] Mattis and General [John] Kelly and Senator [Jeff] Sessions and Mr.[Rex] Tillerson and Congressman [Mike] Pompeo testify, you thought, look, this is a reasonable more than a reasonable, I would say, cabinet.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Looks, Saws, Cabinets

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• [Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Hero, Rights, Way

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• I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Mean, Winning, Squares

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• [John Lewis] really created something that - that he didn't need to

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  Needs

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• I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Mean, Bridges, Inspire

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• Incredible how unnecessary it [questions the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump] was, because John Lewis was articulating something that most Democrats simply aren't, calling Trump illegitimate.

  Jason Chaffetz

  President, Calling, Unnecessary

• My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Honor, Citizens, Facts

• Until we see something that is actually wrongdoing, we're probably not going to go on a fishing trip to go see look at.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Fishing, Looks, Goes On

  "Reince Priebus, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. January 15, 2017.

• I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there was classified information housed in a non-classified setting.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Office, Information, Action

  "Reince Priebus, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. January 15, 2017.

• I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Successful, Thinking, Fishing

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• That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't even been sworn in yet. So, all this flailing about how he's done everything wrong it's a little premature at best.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Law, President, Done

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• What you need to look at is what is required by law, which I believe that Donald Trump has complied with.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Believe, Law, Needs

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• I'm not going to go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to, the president has a duty and obligation to comply with the law. But again he's exempt from almost all of these things.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Fishing, Law, President

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• I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. And so I do believe that he has set up a plan where the revenue or the profits that are coming to the hotel will be given directly to the Treasury.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Believe, Mean, Trump

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• My question is about the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Is he acting ethically when he sent out nine tweets praising Donald Trump saying that his plan was brilliant. How did he come to that conclusion? And how does come to his current conclusions having never done an investigation and never looked at the paperwork in the point where he can actually come to a reasonable conclusion?I think that's unethical.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Thinking, Government, Office

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• [Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Law, President, Trump

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