Adam Schiff

Well, I think it`s extremely important. And you know, we have to take notice of the breadth of what Bannon tried to do which is not come to committee and assert some kind of privilege, but claim that he doesn`t even need to show up, that…

I expect we`ll take this up on the floor very soon. And I`m not in a position to announce how soon, but I think it`s going to happen very soon just as we took up this criminal contempt.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. And nothing in the First Amendment precludes us from protecting the country from these violent white nationalist groups.

Yes, there is a right of association, but there is no right to incite violence.

Well, the 'Still Could' refers to the fact that the president, the former president, is still out pushing this big lie that led to the insurrection.

A big lie doesn’t take shape of its own. It’s built upon a scaffold of lies.

Steve Bannon was given every opportunity to comply with a lawful subpoena. He chose instead to make specious claims of executive privilege.

I think the chances are actually very good. And the fact that if the Justice Department prosecutes Steve Bannon, other witnesses will see they will face real consequences, including jail time and potentially stiff fines, that is a way of…

As long as the GOP and its leadership are a cult, an autocratic cult around the former president, there’s no accommodating that.

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

Well, it’s very hard to see how we can get timely information to protect the country if we can’t enforce our own subpoenas. So I do view this as an early test of whether our democracy is recovering, a test of the principle that no one is…

We need to get answers to how this attack on the Capitol took place. Why took place, what we need to do to protect the country going forward? And frankly, what was the President`s role before during and after that insurrection? Do we need…

I think that he is a very forward-looking person.

And when that small light was extinguished, prospects for a swift recovery from the damage inflicted by the most grandiose of liars died along with it.

I think Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger among them, and those are very important voices within the Republican Party.

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

Moreover, if Kevin McCarthy is speaker, then, functionally, Donald Trump is speaker, because McCarthy will not stand up to him, no matter how unethical the demand.

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

I think practically anyone else who did that would be under indictment already.

It's very hard to see how we can get timely information to protect the country if we can't enforce our own subpoenas. So I do view this as an early test of whether our democracy is recovering, a test of the principle that no one is above…

They just need to be beaten at the polls.

There may be another attack on the Capitol.

I am very encouraged, on the most immediate need of our committee, that the Justice Department, Merrick Garland's Justice Department, is allowing us access to very top-level people and not standing in the way.

We didn`t have a Justice Department that was interested in justice or the rule of law.

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.