Eric Swalwell

We believe in the rule of law, and we believe that there's an honor code in America, which is that you follow a process of traditions and customs.

The Republicans should go with their gut instinct. They voted before anyone knew what the report would show, to release it fully to the public, 420-0, they joined Democrats.

This is a clarion call for us to see this report immediately.

In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion.

But there are thousands and thousands of other people who deserve them, too, and they haven't gotten them.

His exercise of the power has been commendable in some instances--yes, that goes back to the celebrity's friend and my constituent, Alice Marie Johnson--

We have an obligation to solve this in a compassionate, humanitarian way, but, again, this is not new, this is not an emergency.

We are turning away asylum seekers at our ports. We are driving them to places that are more treacherous and dangerous.

This obsession with a wall, which will be funded at the expense of our military, is heartbreaking to me.

No President should have that kind of unlimited power. That is what is at stake here.

That was an important first step in reasserting Congress' role as a check against President Trump's unlimited appetite for power.

That the President doesn't follow. But have there been discussions about pardons for those individuals that you are aware of, yes or no?

The best way for our economy to move forward is if we do not become Russia.

What the president sees as presidential harassment is really the end of presidential immunity.

We want to make sure the president of the United States is not financially compromised.

If we work together on background checks and mental health illness, which I believe is correctly identified as another issue.

Even though last night at the State of the Union, you did not hear one single word from the President about gun violence.

Maybe it is because the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas could articulate what the beautiful babies at Sandy Hook could not.

After six years, from Sandy Hook to Pulse to Charleston and all the cities we have come to learn, we saw moments of silence followed by moments of inaction.

I am very passionate about, which is, having a ban on assault weapons.

Australia enacted a comprehensive buyback on assault weapons. It was about 650,000 assault weapons.

I learned as a prosecutor that when a round flies out of an assault weapon, oftentimes, because of the pistol grip you can indiscriminately spray a crowd.

I fear every day as they are out on the beat, that they are out gunned.

If that is your standard, then we should just all go home and never strive to do anything to make us safer in our communities.

If we reduce to take the most dangerous weapons, like assault rifles out of the hands of the most dangerous people, we can seriously reduce, in our lifetime, the number of families who would have to sit in the Gallery and experience that…