"This entire hearing is a contrived campaign photo op."
"Step one, publicly accuse the witnesses of criminal activity no matter how ludicrous, and then refer them to U.S. Attorneys' Office for criminal investigation."
"I disagree with you about the excessive, in my view, focus on Hillary Clinton."
"The point of today's hearing is to investigate baseless Republican accusations that Secretary Clinton or her aides ordered the destruction of emails to conceal them from investigators."
"He went through every single thing, every single email. And he came to the conclusion that there was no criminal conduct."
"Keep in mind that Director Comey said that this was an all-star group of FBI agents, an all-star group of FBI agents said unanimously that these gentlemen should not be charged."
"There's a legitimate basis to inquire as to what happened. But we've done it."
"The repetition of the question that raises the apprehension that the Chinese or the Russians are making this determined effort to hack into accounts and focusing it all on Hillary Clinton acts as thou..."
"I believe this committee is abusing taxpayer dollars and the authority of Congress in an astonishing onslaught of political attacks to damage Secretary Clinton's campaign for President of the United S..."
"What this is telling me is that one entire agency of the Federal Government, ICE, believes the State Department is so weak, so incompetent on this issue that they don't think it is worth their time to..."
"We should make no apologies for acting like a superpower. We should use the tools that the Congress has given you and just do it."