"If downfall ever comes to America, we ourselves would be its 'author and finisher.'"
"A violent insurrection to overturn an election is not an abstract thing as we've heard."
"Nothing he ever saw in combat in Iraq, he has said, prepared him for the insurrection."
"I wonder what former President Trump would say to someone like Sergeant Gonell who must now go about remaking his life."
"Although that turn of phrase explained little about our country before he took office, it turned out to be an excellent prophecy of what his rage would come to visit on our people."
"American carnage, that is Donald Trump's true legacy."
"His desire to overthrow the people's election and seize the Presidency... nearly toppled the constitutional order."
"What this Committee, what all of us will do to fortify our democracy against coups, political violence, and campaigns to steal elections away from the people."
"He threatens to take one of America's two major political parties with him down the road to authoritarianism."
"American democracy, Mr. Chairman, is a precious inheritance, something rare in the history of the world."
"We need to defend both our democracy and our freedom with everything we have."
"In the run-up to January 6th, Donald Trump had an obligation to tell his supporters to accept the results of the election."