Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague, Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, for his powerful and eloquent remarks on the floor less than 24 hours ago. He talked about the threat that exists now--looming larger every day--of a constitutional crisis. It is a crisis that threatens the foundations of our democracy. It involves a potential confrontation and, indeed, a legal conflagration between the President of the United States and the special counsel who has been appointed to investigate wrongdoing in our government. None of the facts that justified--indeed, required--the appointment of a special counsel has been controverted in any reasonable way by anyone since the appointment of that special counsel. Now a campaign of mistruth and misdirection has been launched against that special counsel investigation. It is a campaign that is calculated, concerted, and coordinated. It is calculated because it is planned and premeditated; it is concerted in its consistency and vehemence; and it is coordinated among officials within the government, including the U.S. Congress and commentators and individuals outside the government. The danger of a constitutional crisis is real and urgent, and we must come together in the U.S. Senate to face it and address it and deal with it. This body has come together in the past when America has faced a foreign adversary that has sought to do our Nation harm.…”