Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a troubled time, a sad time. It is a time where all of us have stood almost to a person and lamented the violence and the assault on this Capitol and the assault on democracy itself. It was right to do that. But this impeachment ought to be put in the perspective of what the Republican chair of the Republican Conference said it was. She said the President of the United States summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of that attack. There has never been, she said, a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution. That is why we are here today. That is why we are here today just a week before that President, at the request of the American people, will leave office. The issue is, what do we, the 433 of us, I believe, who are here, do on behalf of the American people to respond to what Representative Cheney described that happened on the 6th of January: a mob assembled by, summoned by, and then spoken to, to light the flame of the attack. To ``stop the steal,'' as we sat here, exercising our constitutional duty. And to his great credit, the Vice President of the United States followed the Constitution of the United States of America, notwithstanding the fact that he was opportuned by the President not to do so. That mob sent by the President to ``stop the steal'' did so for a few hours, not the ``steal'' but the constitutional duty that we had.…”