They are very, very sophisticated at propaganda.

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

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 believe that they did. Ukraine had been invaded and attacked by Russia.

It is overwhelmingly clear that he did.

It is impossible for me to take it seriously, given that I have researched all of the circumstances and the context.

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

When Lieutenant Colonel Vindman testified, he said that this request for a favor was not in any sense a friendly request; it was a demand in the context of the hundreds of millions of dollars that were being held up.

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.

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

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

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

Well, there is an unstated premise there, which is that the President had a general interest in fighting corruption in Ukraine. And we saw little or no evidence of that at all.

We are the people's body.

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

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

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

He has tried to block all of the witnesses.

What makes me suspicious, Mr. Hastings, is that he decided to tie that in with his other plan.

Mr. Putin wants us to be fighting each other.

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

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

I think that it is almost a patriotic duty for us in this very tough time to see that we try to bridge partisan and ethnic and racial and sectional differences.

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.

Solely in the House of Representatives.