The following is a statement from the Senate’s closed deliberations on the Articles of Impeachment against President Clinton, excerpts of which senators were allowed to publish in the Congressional Record for Friday, February 12, 1999.
Senator Larry Craig was a Republican senator from Idaho. He served from 1991 until 2009.
Statement by Senator Larry Craig (Republican – Idaho)
I promised to share with the people of Idaho and the nation what comments I made in the closed session of the Senate deliberating on the impeachment of President Clinton.
What I told my colleagues as we deliberated was this:
If we were in a church, the minister would admonish us from the pulpit to hate the sin and forgive the sinner. But we’re not in a church.