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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

This impeachment is not really about facts.

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.

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