Jamie Raskin

The role of the House is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor, and the actual trial takes place over in the Senate.

Well, if he is innocent, just tell him to come prove it.

You don't like the guy. You don't like the conversation. You don't like how he does business.

Impeachment is in the Constitution because of public offenses by political leaders against democracy itself.

Let's use our common sense.

I think this is what you call obstruction, plain and simple.

What is our ultimate check against that? It is going to be impeachment.

We are supposed to stand sentinel to make sure that the President will only enforce the laws.

The President, who says the process is unfair, is the one who is stopping everybody from coming to testify.

I have seen lots of fairness in this process.

I think it is absolutely wrong.

This was an arrangement where the President conditioned all of this foreign assistance that we had sent, $200 million to the Department of Defense, $191 million to the Department of State, to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia, and…

It places the personal political agenda and ambitions of the President over enforcing the laws and enforcing the rule of law.

Abuse of power is the essential impeachment offense. That is why it is in there.

And Mr. Collins invoked indirectly my favorite American revolutionary, Tom Paine, who, of course, wrote, 'Common Sense and the Age of Reason.'

What does that have to do with the foreign policy of the United States? What does that have to do with what Congress voted for?

There were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the House Committee on Intelligence.

We don't have to first go out and prove that he committed bribery or committed honest services fraud or committed extortion.

You see, 'heads, I win; tails you lose' is the essence of that argument.

We are Members of Congress who are working to protect the country against a President who is committing high crimes and misdemeanors.

We cannot allow this misconduct to pass. It would be a sellout of our Constitution, our foreign policy, our national security, and our democracy.

The President's continuing course of conduct constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy in America.

America remembers when then-candidate Donald Trump uttered the imperishably infamous words: Russia, if you are listening...

He says that Article II of the Constitution gives him the power to do whatever he wants.

We believe this conduct is impeachable and should never take place again under our constitutional system.