Tom McClintock

Not one of their hand-picked witnesses provided any firsthand knowledge of the President ordering a quid pro quo.

It's amazing that they start with impeachment, and then they spent 2 years trying to figure out, what do we impeach him on?

The President or any potential witness to this impeachment inquiry should be allowed to raise defenses without it being used as an adverse inference against him.

There is no basis for obstruction.

The impeachment inquiry is clearly an orchestrated effort to upend our political system.

For anyone, the media or watching on TV or watching in this room, for anyone to think that this was not a baked deal is not being honest with themselves.

Our Constitution vests the executive authority, including the enforcement of our laws, with the President, and it gives him sole authority to conduct our foreign affairs.

Democracy only works because the losing side always respects the will of the voters.

When Sondland even asked the President directly, he said: What do you want? The President: I want nothing.

I tell you, this may be, though, become known as the focus group impeachment, because we don't have a crime...

I think Congress ought be held accountable for their oath of office as well and not to do what we're doing right now.

What's worse is that the documents they decided to dump on us are not all of the underlying records we need to review.

The focus group impeachment takes words and then takes them to people and say how, can we explain this better...

It's November 2020. It's been said over and over and over again, the chairman said it again this morning...

The Democrats are fond of saying no one is above the law, but they have one unspoken caveat: except for themselves.

Again, so much for due process and fairness.

In fact, what happened? They did--my colleagues on the majority had live readings from Capitol Hill. They made dramatic podcasts.

Chairman Schiff couldn't even read the transcript. He had to make it up, because if he didn't make it up, it didn't sound as bad.

This is a stunning abuse of power and a shameless travesty of justice that will stain the reputations of those responsible for generations to come.

The current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects dangerous and the basis for impeachment of an American President.

Well, there is probably a reason for that, because as the chairman laid out some amazing claims, none of which I think...

Democrats denied us witnesses. Democrats voted down subpoenas we sought to issue for both documents and testimony.

You see, presumption has now become the standard instead of proof.

The author of the Schiff report is not here. Instead, he's sending his staff to do his job for him.

What we have become is a perpetual state of impeachment, and that is the problem that everyone on this dais should have.