"This is a completely unprecedented, single-party impeachment charade, and everybody at home can see that clearly."
"This is the most amorphous amendment that you could have."
"The executive branch will be subordinated to the legislative, serving at the pleasure of Congress, and the separation of powers at the heart of our Constitution will have been utterly destroyed."
"Tearing down the Ukrainian President, President Zelensky, and besmirching the folks who died."
"There is no way to recover from that."
"This committee has now sounded the death of minority rights in this committee."
"This is a just travesty and a sham from day one."
"It is just categorically wrong."
"The amendment in the nature of a substitute is absolutely irrelevant."
"You are using inflammatory language because you want to make a better point because, right now, your facts are failing."
"The Articles of Impeachment before us in this committee do not meet the necessary requirements nor have they followed an exhaustive pursuit to even find out all of the facts of the case."