Adam Schiff

He has betrayed our national security and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him.

There’s no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing, not now. Not in the future. I don’t think he can be trusted with it now. And in the future, he certainly can’t be trusted.

There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing, not now, not in the future. I don’t think he can be trusted with it now and in the future he certainly can’t be trusted.

He has done it before, he will do it again. What are the odds if left in office he will continue trying to cheat? I will tell you, 100 percent. He will continue trying to cheat in the election until he succeeds. Then what shall you say?

Kevin McCarthy is as close as you'll find to pure ambition unadulterated by any sense of principle. That is sadly who he is.

I would like to believe that this is the day that America got off the road towards autocracy and got back on the path our Founders envisioned and that is of a Democratic republic.

Well, you know, I have been thinking a lot about this question too, and I keep coming back to something that Robert Caro once wrote that power doesn't corrupt as much as it reveals. It shows us who we are.

The President, of course, is the prime propagator of what about-ism. We've seen that for four years now.

I would have liked to have seen more than 10 of the rest recognize that the severity of what this President did and the need, not only to remove him, but to telegraph to any future occupant of that office, that if a person does anything…

We moved with incredible alacrity to address this danger that the President poses every day he remains.

Mitch McConnell could absolutely reconvene the Senate earlier than that if he wanted to in order to start the Senate trial right away if he did really think that President Trump is an ongoing present danger to the republic.

After that failed insurrection, over 100 Republicans in the House went right back to where they left off, continuing the big lie about the election, continuing to try to discredit the electors from various states, and disenfranchise…

If Mitch McConnell draws this out, delays, stonewalls and drags his heels, then he will bear the responsibility.

If Mitch McConnell wants to move with expedition, he knows how to do it.

Every day this man remains in office, he's a danger to the republic.

The exigency of the circumstances warrants a departure from the ordinary and lengthy process in the House.

The danger of him continuing to abuse his power will go up, not down, in the time remaining in his term.

By inciting this act of insurrection, President Trump has committed his worst offense against our country and Constitution to date.

Congress should act to begin impeachment proceedings as the only instrument wholly within our power to remove a president who has so manifestly and repeatedly violated the Constitution and put our nation at great risk.

He has not changed. He will not change. He has made that clear himself without self-awareness or hesitation. A man without character or ethical compass will never find his way. He has done it before. He will do it again.

We're going to try to keep the focus where it needs to be, on our Constitution, on the peaceful transition of power, and on the need to make sure this exercise of self-government continues and succeeds.

I think part of that self-defeating interpretation is not one even this court would give, but Lawrence, you may be right. He may feel he's got a get out of jail free card, or it may just be the nature of the beast, and that is that he…

It was obviously very wise, and I can certainly understand why he made that decision to do it, because the president would misrepresent anything that took place on that call, and because it was very possible the president was going to ask…

He has done it before, he will do it again. What are the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat? I will tell you, 100 percent. He will continue trying to cheat in the election until he succeeds. Then what shall you…

He's pardoning people who lie and have no compunction about it. He's pardoning people like in Iowa who cheat an election. He's pardoning family members.