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His desire to overthrow the people's election and seize the Presidency... nearly toppled the constitutional order.
7/11/2022
What Donald Trump was required to do in that moment--what would have been required of any American leader--was to say, '...
7/11/2022
If downfall ever comes to America, we ourselves would be its 'author and finisher.'
7/11/2022
the problem of politicians whipping up mob violence to destroy fair elections is the oldest domestic enemy of constituti...
7/11/2022
We need to defend both our democracy and our freedom with everything we have.
7/11/2022
A violent insurrection to overturn an election is not an abstract thing as we've heard.
7/11/2022
Nothing he ever saw in combat in Iraq, he has said, prepared him for the insurrection.
7/11/2022
What happened on January 6, 2021, was another one of those moments in history that tests the strength of our Federal Gov...
7/11/2022
What this Committee, what all of us will do to fortify our democracy against coups, political violence, and campaigns to...
7/11/2022
American democracy, Mr. Chairman, is a precious inheritance, something rare in the history of the world.
7/11/2022
I wonder what former President Trump would say to someone like Sergeant Gonell who must now go about remaking his life.
7/11/2022
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Bennie Gordon Thompson
in office

usa, Mississippi

2,661 Quotes

Born1/28/1948 (age 77)

PartyDemocratic

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/5/1993 - present
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