Tom McClintock

So much for due process.

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

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

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

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

I can't help but reflect about John Adams, about Thomas Jefferson who routinely pilloried their political opponents.

Now, you know, it seems to me that if you're looking for a quid pro quo and looking for something that was really over the top, it was not saying, do me a favor; it was saying, son of a bleep.

I think this is also something missing from this discussion, is well, if the President has had a long seeded distrust of foreign companies, especially Ukraine and others with a history of corruption.

I think the key point is that the Republicans are still running a railroad job with no attempt at fair procedure.

The American people are obviously failing to see us legislate.

God forbid if we walk into our courtrooms or in our proceedings now and find somebody guilty of something we're calling a crime, and we walk into court now and all of a sudden, well, I thought it was.

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives called the President of the United States an imposter.

We should be doing things like passing USMCA, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and working on our failing infrastructure.

You can declare the definitions of crimes alleged are immaterial and just an exercise of politics, not the law.

Benjamin Franklin is discussing impeachment of a Dutch leader and he talked specifically about what he would anticipate an impeachment to look like.

It's audacious to say it's using the royal 'we.' That's royal, all right; but it ain't the royal 'we.'

And I think the American public are getting a little bit sick and tired of impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, when they know that less than a year from now, they will be able to determine whether Donald Trump stays in office or…

Because we're scared of the elections next year. We're scared of the elections, that we'll lose again.

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.

The people of this country are sick of this. They're sick of the politics of personal destruction.

This is a sham impeachment against President Trump. It's not compelling, it's not overwhelming, and it's not bipartisan.

You're talking about overturning 63 million votes of a President duly elected who is doing his job every day.

No collusion, no obstruction, no quid pro quo, no evidence of bribery except opinion.

You know, it probably doesn't matter that the President didn't condition a meeting on an investigation.