Political Quotes

“I rise today to speak on the impeachment trial of President Donald John Trump. I know this was not a difficult decision for many of my friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but it is one that has weighed heavily on me. Voting whether or not to remove a sitting President is no easy decision, and it shouldn't be, as the consequences for our Nation are severe. As a moderate, centrist Democrat from West Virginia with one of the most bipartisan voting records in the Senate, I have approached every vote I have cast in this body with an open mind and pride myself in working across the aisle to bring my Republican and Democratic friends together to do what is best for our country. Where I come from, party politics is more often overruled by just plain old common sense, and I have never, in over 35 years of public service, approached an issue with premeditated thoughts that my Republican friends are always wrong and my Democratic friends are always right. Since the people of West Virginia sent me here in 2010, I have never forgotten the oath I took to defend the Constitution and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which I am honored to hold. It is by the Constitution that we sit here today as a court for the trial of impeachments. It is the Constitution that gives us what Hamilton called the ``awful discretion'' to remove the President from office.…”