Tom McClintock

This impeachment is not really about facts.

This whole inquiry was started out by a comment that President Trump made to President Zelensky in the July 25 call of, quote, do me a favor, unquote.

The Democrats's case is based on nothing more than thoughts, feelings, and conjectures.

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

It apparently doesn't matter to the Democrats that Ambassador Volker...made clear in his testimony there was no conditionality on the White House meeting or the aid.

My Democratic colleagues have been searching for a pretext for impeachment since before the President was sworn in.

And I take this responsibility extremely seriously. You know, it is an awesome and very grave responsibility, and it is not one that should be done lightly, it is not one that should be done quickly, and it is not one without examining all…

Even terrorists in Iraq are afforded more due process than you and the Democratic majority have afforded the President.

He said, More would give the devil the benefit of the law.

The House's power of impeachment demands a rigorous level of due process.

To impeach a President on this record would expose every future President to the same type of inchoate impeachment.

Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path because it divides the country.

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

The greatest threat is the rapidly eroding trust of the American people in their institutions.

This impeachment inquiry has been predicated on some rather disturbing legal doctrines.

The clock and the calendar are what's driving impeachment, not the facts.

One of my colleagues wondered how this panel can opine as to whether the President committed an impeachable offense and the answer, quite, frankly, is because you came in with a preconceived notion.

The facts are on the President's side. But we've got an unfair process because they don't have the facts.

This President, as facts were given, did nothing wrong, nothing to be impeached, and nothing for why we're here.

So, Mr. Chairman, I know you're about to give a statement, and they've worked on it and you've worked on it very hard I'm sure, but I want--before you gavel this hearing, before you start your statement, before you go any further, I would…

So my question that I started out today is, where is fairness? It was promised. It's not being delivered.

This is not a time to play hide the ball.

We have a responsibility to consider the facts that emerge squarely and with the best interest of our country, not our party and our hearts.

The Constitution commands the President take care that the laws be faithfully enforced.

The financial burden of cleaning up pollution should not just be on the taxpayers.