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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
Dec 10, 2019

This President has set our democracy on fire and we must act to save it.

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Dec 10, 2019

I am very proud to stand with the patriots here on this committee.

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Dec 10, 2019

This really is a very, very tragic moment in American history, a very dark moment in American history.

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Dec 10, 2019

If he has nothing to hide, then let him come forward with those documents and those witnesses.

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Dec 10, 2019

The President of the United States attempted to drag a foreign power into our election, to corrupt the 2020 election, to cheat, undermined our national security, betrayed the national interests of this country, and he must be held…

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Dec 10, 2019

I want to hear someone dispute the fact that President Trump ignored the talking points about anticorruption in his both April 21 and July 25 calls with President Zelensky.

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Dec 10, 2019

I want to hear someone dispute the fact that, when Rudy was hired, the anticorruption ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, was fired.

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Dec 10, 2019

I want to hear someone dispute the fact that Rudy Giuliani was Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

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Dec 10, 2019

The President is losing in a national poll by double digits to Joe Biden. Those are the facts.

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Dec 10, 2019

If President Trump and my Republican colleagues were so interested in rooting out corruption in Ukraine, there was so much they could do that they never did.

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Dec 10, 2019

It is the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Dec 10, 2019

You know the only people who benefited from this scheme? President Trump, because he thought he was going to get an announcement to smear his political opponent, and Vladimir Putin, Russia.

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Dec 10, 2019

The President committed the highest crime against the Constitution by abusing his office, cheating in an election, inviting foreign interference for a purely personal gain, while jeopardizing our national security and the integrity of our…

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Dec 10, 2019

We will uphold our duty to charge the President with the crimes against the Constitution.

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Dec 10, 2019

Clearly, the July 25 phone call constitutes a wire communication.

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Dec 10, 2019

There are no crimes here? That is the defense my colleagues across the aisle are putting forward? How about the highest crime that one who holds public office could commit, a crime against our Constitution?

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Dec 10, 2019

Le pido a dios que nos de sabiduria, y que nos ayude unir nuestra querida patria, los Estados Unidos Americanos.

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Dec 10, 2019

Mi voto, sera para asegurar que sigamos siendo una democracia, y no una dictadura.

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Dec 10, 2019

Una democracia existe cuando nadie esta sobre la constitucion, y todos somos sujetos a la ley.

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Dec 10, 2019

America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.

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Dec 10, 2019

Tristemente estamos aqui, hoy, contemplando las acciones del president de los Estados Unidos.

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Dec 10, 2019

No one--no one--is above the law.

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Dec 10, 2019

Congress is equal with the Presidency.

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Dec 10, 2019

The Presidency is a public trust.

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Dec 10, 2019

When I was 5 my dad was the police chief of Algona, Iowa. He was and still is a law and order guy, everything by the book.

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