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

American elections belong to the American people, not the American President and not foreign powers. No President may cheat the people by working with foreign governments to steal from us a free and fair election. And no President who…

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

He could have submitted names for anybody he wanted to.

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.

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.

President Trump is essentially being charged with conducting a break-in of American democracy in order to harm his political opponent.

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

It was because Joe Biden was running for President, and he was looking for a hook to go after Joe Biden.

So when we get elected, we have to try to think about the good of everyone.

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

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?

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

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

He is elected as a reformer, he has taken on the corrupt forces in his society, but he is being presented essentially with yet another corrupt scheme.

I have seen lots of fairness in this process.

But I do want to push back against the idea that this conversation is only for people wearing pins.

If we say that forever hereafter we are going to allow the President of the United States to use the awesome powers of his office to shake down particular governments...

Now, either we think that is in appropriate and proper thing for the President of the United States to be doing or we think it is wrong.

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?

The President there was essentially just repeating Russian disinformation and propaganda, either wittingly or unwittingly.

Dr. Hill testified to the back channels outside of our usual national security and diplomatic policy that sought to exchange a White House meeting for investigations pursued by the President.

Moreover, if you go to the July 25 telephone call, President Trump never raised the word 'corruption' once, but he did talk about Joe Biden three times.

Are we going to be allowing the President of the United States to be working with Vladimir Putin's Super-PAC?

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman described the unprecedented subversion of America's national interest in a strong Ukraine, in favor of a wholly personal interest of President Trump.