“I do not at this time have any recollection of that.”
“What difference at this point does it make?”
“I’m not a crook.”
“I think I did something for the worst possible reason — just because I could. I think that’s the most , just about the most morally indefensible reason that anybody could have for doing anything.” (tough one—Bill Clinton to Dan Rather)
“I invoke my right against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
Of course nobody at the top of this pyramid will spend a millisecond behind bars but getting him to perjure himself and then expose that perjury in a public hearing will be useful next year.