"Third, the former President had no qualms about literally weaponizing our Nation's law enforcement and military against First Amendment activity for his political purposes."
"Can you think of a more egregious example of weaponizing the Department of Justice for nakedly political purposes than imprisoning and putting in solitary confinement the President's own former lawyer..."
"Government abuses of power do not solely rest with the Executive Branch. It can, and we have seen it, come from the Legislative Branch as well."
"Our Framers were enlightenment thinkers who wrote us an enlightenment Constitution. They wanted government to operate on the basis of facts, science, and common sense, not ignorance and superstition."
"The violence and the chaos that was reaped upon this institution, not far from where we sit today, on January 6, the attempt to topple a Presidential election and install someone who had not been elec..."
"The whole hearing was predicated on the idea that the FBI directed Twitter to take down the New York Post story to protect Biden, but, once again, not a single witness testified that the FBI even comm..."
"It is even more important now that we have Members who are actually threatening witnesses with arrest and prosecution for clearly imaginary offenses."
"Today's witnesses, each and every one, testified that no U.S. Government official directed any of them to censor, remove, or take down the New York Post story."
"There is a collective responsibility across the private sector and the public sector to address our shared threats."
"I believe that would be a profound failure."
"Did I hear you correctly to say that there were thousands or even hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Twitter accounts set up by Russian propaganda?"