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Eric Swalwell

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Eric Michael Swalwell is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 15th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Swalwell has focused on issues such as gun control, healthcare, and technology policy during his time in office. He gained national attention for his role in the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump and has been an advocate for progressive reforms within the Democratic Party.

Quotes by year · 2013–20251,547 total · peak 2019 (208)
2013: 130 quotes2014: 87 quotes2015: 66 quotes2016: 20 quotes2017: 132 quotes2018: 103 quotes2019: 208 quotes2020: 63 quotes2021: 168 quotes2022: 171 quotes2023: 202 quotes2024: 165 quotes2025: 32 quotes
May 16, 2022

What we need to be doing now is actually focusing in this room on how to ensure that this never happens again.

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May 16, 2022

They're not really hearing solutions that are realistic or that don't kill a baby at the border to have political theater in the United States.

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May 12, 2022

What actions did he not take that could have protected this from happening and could have protected the lives that were injured that day?

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May 12, 2022

We are already in a position now where they would not allow another peaceful transition of power.

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May 12, 2022

They`re going to do that anyway. And I told January 6 Committee members before this decision was made was that I hope you don`t believe you`re protecting me or Mr. Schiff or Miss Omar by not doing the right thing here because you don`t…

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May 12, 2022

If they don`t want to cooperate, then we`re going to have to press them with legal subpoena.

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May 12, 2022

Shouldn`t their oath have been enough, Chris? Every citizen`s responsibility when they witness a crime is to cooperate with authorities. This is the greatest crime against the Constitution we`ve ever seen, the most amount of arrests ever…

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Apr 27, 2022

We have no intention of losing the midterms. We have delivered. They have divided.

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Apr 27, 2022

The fear is that they are putting in place the building blocks to ensure that a Democrat would never win at the highest office again.

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Apr 27, 2022

Donald Trump is speaker of the House if Kevin McCarthy were to win.

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Apr 27, 2022

They talk such a big game all the time, and then, when they`re caught, literally on audio or text message, they shrink?

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Apr 27, 2022

These guys, Kevin McCarthy's crew, they blocked it from a getting a vote in Congress.

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Apr 27, 2022

I think you have seen over the past few days that my Republican colleagues have zero interest in border security.

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Apr 27, 2022

I was just hoping that we could continue to work with you, and we have worked with your staff to try and make sure that is possible.

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Apr 26, 2022

He had a test. He started to go the right way. He started to give the right answer. And he has utterly shown us that he would fail a future test.

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Apr 26, 2022

Imagine how much safer America would be today if Kevin McCarthy`s tryst with the truth had lasted longer than a couple of days. But he`s gotten back together with the election lies, and he`s become exactly the person he described he didn`t…

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Apr 26, 2022

It would also account for other situations like here, where Mr. Paoletta was responsible for responding to the public in Congressional inquiries about his own involvement in illegally holding up aid to Ukraine.

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Apr 26, 2022

In the most serious cases, the standard might hinge on what someone knew or their State of mind.

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Apr 26, 2022

You know, border politics are pretty easy, right. You can pander to grievances, scare Americans, demonize men and women who left everything behind, carrying nothing, going to a place they don't know.

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Apr 21, 2022

Kevin McCarthy was right. Donald Trump should have resigned. But then Kevin McCarthy went on to vote against impeachment.

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Mar 30, 2022

That’s right. And I would feel much more comfortable if it wasn’t a 50/50 Senate, where Senator Sinema and Manchin would both vote to reform the filibuster, and then vote to put in place -- put back in place the Voting Rights Act.

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Mar 30, 2022

I hope so, because this guy operates like a mob boss. And he knows what to say, what not to say, and on what type of forums to say it.

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Mar 28, 2022

I am sorry that, despite the serious job you have and the serious background that you bring, that you have been treated to unserious questioning by some of my colleagues.

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Mar 28, 2022

Europe has seen the largest invasion since World War II. Millions of refugees are on the run.

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