Political Quotes

“over the last several months and last several weeks, the American people have watched Washington convulse in partisan accusations, investigations, and endless acrimony. That division reached its high watermark as the U.S. Senate carried out the third Presidential impeachment trial in our Nation's history. We saw, over the last 2 weeks, an impeachment process that included the testimony of 17 witnesses, more than 100 hours of testimony, and tens of thousands of pages of evidence, records, and documents, which I successfully fought to make part of the record. I fought hard to extend the duration of testimony to ensure that each side could be heard over 6 days instead of just 4. But what we did not see over the last 2 weeks was a conclusive reason to remove the President of the United States-- an act which would nullify the 2016 election and rob roughly half the country of their preferred candidate for the 2020 elections. House managers repeatedly stated that they had established ``overwhelming evidence'' and an ``airtight'' case to remove the President. Yet they also repeatedly claimed they needed additional investigation and testimony. A case cannot be both ``overwhelming'' and ``airtight'' and yet incomplete at the same time. That contradiction is not mere semantics. In their partisan--their partisan--race to impeach, the House failed to do the fundamental work required to prove its case, to meet the heavy burden.…”