"I want a commission, I want it to be impartial. Certainly, the people you have just talked about have fully disqualified themselves from sitting on any such commission."
"I don’t think somebody like Lindsey Graham, who has spoken out of both sides of his mouth, disgracefully so, should be anywhere near this commission."
"I hope they also collect the stories and catalog the stories of the heroes."
"Please, God, that it never happen again. We never would have thought it would happen. But I hope they come forward, I hope whatever commission is set up is independent and has the full power that they..."
"If we do not deal with our past, it`s going to be our future."
"Senator McConnell, yes, you are talking about the president, but aren’t you also talking about yourself?"
"I think it should be a fully independent commission, perhaps with retired judges, those who would want to serve in order to collect the data, the evidence, review it against the law."
"In a speech spanning almost 11,000 words, yes, we did check, that was the one time, the only time President Trump used the word 'peaceful' or any suggestion of nonviolence."
"Donald Trump was trying to undermine our elections so that he could remain president."
"Because the truth is, this attack never would've happened but for Donald Trump, and so they came draped in Trump's flag, and use our flag, the American flag to batter and to bludgeon."
"I am ashamed for Lindsey Graham. I am shocked, but I guess I shouldn’t be, that he learned nothing, that it is the president who incited this mob attack, this insurrection against a joint session of C..."
"What we have seen is a president fail to do that in historically dangerous ways."