Jamie Raskin

We have got a very heavy decision to make about what to do with a President who enlists and recruits foreign governments to get involved in our elections.

If you don't think it is a big deal for the President of the United States to shake down foreign governments and pressure them to get involved in our campaigns, just tell us so.

It is an after-the-fact rationalization. It is a pretext.

How insulting is that for us to go around saying as a way to justify our President's behavior, oh, they weren't doing enough for Ukraine?

All of these are after-the-fact concoctions and rationalizations that don't square with any of the evidence that we have on the record.

I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. It is a game of Three-card Monte. All of it essentially supports the President's own claim that he is basically above the law.

But it has never been the understanding of any Congress, whether it was the Congress--the House of Representatives that impeached Bill Clinton or the House of Representatives that brought articles against Richard Nixon or back to Andrew…

There are a whole series of crimes in the middle of the Venn diagram which are both high crimes and misdemeanors and also possibly statutory crimes.

Are these the kinds of pieces of evidence that support the articles that your committee drafted that you would like the whole House to vote on tomorrow?

I think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.

The July 25 contemporaneous memorandum itself is overwhelmingly damning of the President's designs on President Zelensky.

You know, I never thought in my lifetime we would get to a point where the President of the United States heckles people for doing their civic duty of going under oath to tell the truth.

These people are not majority witnesses or minority witnesses or these or ours.

We have never seen anything like this in scale and scope and degree in American history.

What is taking place in America has got to be seen in a global context.

Our system is based on the idea of popular self-government, so you need to have the channels of effective political participation open.

If you fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The Constitution did not come from a higher power. It is just a document, a piece of paper with words written on it.

The future health of our democracy is not assured. We can slide back to tyranny one corrupt act at a time.

We have a clear and present danger to our democracy right now because of the electoral corruption.

That is why we are trying to get back to the facts of what took place here with the Ukraine shakedown.

Now this was 2 years before this phone call ever happened. And so, again, I am looking at Articles of Impeachment here.

We are in the process of collecting information to establish an indictment, in essence, charges against the President.

He could have submitted names for anybody he wanted to.

You certainly do not have the right to call irrelevant witnesses.