Thomas McClintock actually said...

"The partisan coup d'etat will go down in infamy in the history of the Nation."

"There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties or imposed by another."

"There’s another crime here which is the solicitation of Federal--of assistance of a foreign government in a Federal election campaign."

"if you rush through this, you do it on flimsy grounds, the American people will not forget the light of history."