Jamie Raskin

We must speak out and act.

The fight against anti-Semitism and bigotry is about more than support for the state of Israel.

We cannot ignore the resurgence in hate that we see now.

We seek to remind people, especially young people, our country's future leaders, that hate can never be ignored.

We have had to legislate to protect whistleblowers in the past because they often irritate people.

Thank you very much, and I want to thank you and all of our colleagues for your indulgence.

All of us, everybody in this Chamber at this point should say that whatever imminent threat existed, whatever emergency there was is gone, and now this country should not go to war without a declaration of war by this Congress or statutory…

None of those things can happen under the law and we want to send the message to people that no information that you put on the census can be used against you and it is secure and it is confidential

Successful voter turnout in an election depends on public trust that people's votes will be counted fairly and a successful civic turnout in a census also depends on public trust, specifically trust that our information will be kept secure…

What we need from the Senate is a commitment to have a fair trial.

And that is a high crime and misdemeanor. It's a crime in progress, and if we let it go, American democracy will be forever altered in a very negative way.

But ultimately, the report demonstrates that one person and one person only was at the heart of the entire scheme against Zelensky and that was Donald Trump. He hatched it. He conceived of it. He executed it, and he swept up all of these…

Mr. President, this is not about you. This is about all of us, what kind of behavior we are willing to tolerate.

Not a single Republican today even hinted that what the President did was wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong.

For the President to say he is being treated worse than the Salem witch trials is unhinged, just like so many of the missives on impeachment.

We fought to keep the vision of our Founders alive in our time.

If it can be done to one struggling democracy, it can be done to another struggling democracy.

That is banana republic stuff, right? That is tin pot dictator stuff.

We have just set a new precedent there, a new standard, that the President can go and try to recruit foreign governments to get in our campaign by threatening, announcing, and engaging in criminal investigations of their political…

The obstruction was clear to me, but we didn't.

They are very, very sophisticated at propaganda.

Mr. Putin wants us to be fighting each other.

The facts of this case are painful and indisputable. We know that the President abused his office, asking the leader of the Ukraine to announce an investigation of his political rival.

This is not about his reelection. It is not about anyone's political future.

He got caught red-handed; and I don't see any ambiguity in the historical record about that.