I think this was inevitable, regardless of the calibration of the federal administration, as it relates to the extreme rhetoric and bigotry, respectfully, of the Trump administration and the Trump years.

At the end of the day, this requires seriousness of purpose, a little less politics, a little less demagoguery.

So goes California, so goes the nation.

It's more than a crisis. This is a human heartbreak. The sad part about all of this, it didn't have to happen. All because the policies of our president has changed and told them something different.

Nothing was more important for him than to stop -- not the steal -- but to stop the transfer of power.

But nonetheless, that a majority of senators found that this president should be disqualified, is guilty of inciting insurrection -- it’s a pretty powerful statement.

Well, I give her a lot of credit for having the courage to speak up about that and also for her vote on the impeachment in the House of Representatives.

The reason why Trump’s lawyers couldn’t answer that question is because the truthful answer is he did nothing to protect Mike Pence because he didn’t care, because he doesn’t care.

I think the American public would love to have a math and science requirement for Members of Congress.

I don't think anyone in America, a reasonable person, thinks we should have requirements for immigrants to take math and science tests.

I think that the most important thing that I have heard today comes from our witnesses who have talked about necessarily throwing out the occurrences of things that have happened maybe on a once in every 100 year basis.

The United States needs to stop talking about squabbling between politicians and listen to human rights, business, labor, legal, and other civil society groups.

Clearly we need to take action.

We cannot continue with an illegal electoral council.

It would be a disaster if there were no qualified, serious, and noncorrupt Haitians capable of leading our country.

if our investment results in shooting innocent people and colluding with the existing government that does not sound like a good return on investment to me

I think that the balance of this hearing should be off finding common ground, and I think, after listening to our guests this morning who gave testimony, that is the most important part of what I've learned.

We clearly need to reduce carbon emissions and achieve zero--net zero emissions, we need to implement carbon removal technology as soon as possible.