Political Quotes

Thomas Scanlon

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Dec 10, 2019

We are not judging the President himself; we are judging his actions.

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Dec 10, 2019

There is plenty of direct evidence of the President's wrongdoing.

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Dec 10, 2019

If President Trump's obstruction, abuse of power, and obstruction of Congress are not impeachable, nothing is.

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Dec 10, 2019

There is no exception in the Constitution that allows a President to cheat in an election just because the economy's going well.

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Dec 4, 2019

I think the bigger questions going to be how many Republicans they lose?

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Dec 4, 2019

I think we are just trying to work through it as expeditiously as we can.

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Dec 4, 2019

He is soliciting interference from another country, and when he got caught out, he is trying to obstruct that investigation.

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Dec 4, 2019

I think we laid out really clearly yesterday with the witnesses, talking about why we have an impeachment clause, why the Founders thought there were certain things that constituted impeachable conduct, and they were the very things we are talking about here. It's foreign interference in our government. It's corrupt elections. It's corruption by our executive.

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Dec 4, 2019

Impeachment is not about undoing an election. Elections are for, as the speaker suggested earlier today, that when you disagree with someone's morals, where you disagree with their qualifications, or you disagree with their policies, this isn't about any of that. This is about the fact that the current president appears to be undermining our constitution through corruption.

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Dec 3, 2019

the President's obstruction of Congress' investigation into his use of the Office of the President to squeeze the Ukrainian Government to help the Trump reelection campaign.

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