Adam Schiff actually said...

"This is how democracies die, when the instruments of democracy are used against democracy itself."

"If Kevin McCarthy had been speaker during the last presidential election, they would have decertified the results."

"the Republican Party has turned into an autocratic cult of the former president. It is no longer wedded to even the idea of democracy."

"It seems as if there is nothing that this former president can do that will cause at least the Republican leadership as it exists today to stand up to him and defend the democracy."