"Well, a lot of us think that is bizarre, not very fair."
"It is just completely bizarre and unfair that people--"
"Democrats are wasting the nation`s time on a partisan vendetta against a man no longer in office."
"This proceeding, which would try a private citizen and not a president, a vice president or civil officer violates the constitution and is not an order."
"The vote we took today is essentially a mirror of the vote we will take at the very end, 45 republicans don`t even think that procedure, don`t even think that the trial is constitutional."
"Where is the constitutional power to impeach him? Private citizens don’t get impeached. Impeachment is for removal from office."
"If 34 people support my resolution that this is an unconstitutional proceeding, it shows, they don’t have the votes to convict and we’re wasting our time."
"People say, oh, we are going to get rid of the iron fist and Thomas Jefferson is going to rise from the ashes."
"The lesson of these wars is that regime change does not work."
"I would argue that instead of always choosing the Government, maybe we should not reward the bad ones."
"the policies you have advocated and Joe Biden has advocated and, frankly, John Bolton has advocated this idea of regime change has been a disaster for the Middle East."
"The problem isn't lack of consensus. The problem is too much consensus, but the consensus is for regime change."