... while embracing or ignoring Trump's statements might seem attractive to some for fundraising and political purposes that approach will do profound long-term damage to our party and our country.

History is watching. Our children are watching. We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process. I'm committed to doing that no matter what the short-term political…

Doing so could cause profound long term damage to our party and our country.

The former President created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.

the GOP is at a turning point and warns the former president is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work.

History is watching, our children are watching. We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process. I am committed to doing that no matter what the consequences are.

We can’t embrace the notion the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can’t whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump’s big lie. It’s a threat to democracy. What he did on January 6 is a…

we can`t become the party of QAnon, but they already have. That is the party.

we can`t embrace the notion that the election is stolen. It`s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy.

she's standing on principle, she's called the thing what it is, and that is a lie, and that there was no fraud in the 2020 election, and that anyone who perpetuate that is a liar, and a fraud.

Liz Cheney said somewhere, we can`t become the party of QAnon, but they already have. That is the party.

she's chosen to put herself in the crosshairs and dare her opponents to shoot, and sooner or later, somebody will.

The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading the big lie, turning their back on the rule of law and poisoning our democratic system.

We can’t embrace the notion that the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy.

If a prerequisite for leading our conference is continuing to lie to our voters, then Liz is not the best fit.

We can't rebuild the party or the conservative movement on a foundation of lies. We can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. It's a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can't be a cult of personality. We can't whitewash…

What Liz Cheney is doing, what Mitt Romney is doing is they're not just fighting for the Republican Party, but they certainly are -- they are fighting for the future of our democracy.

That’s something we’ve never seen in this country before.

Individual colleagues that confided in Cheney that most of the conference was only too happy to move on from Trump but saying so in public was another matter.

She wants a nominee with the new clearance of the Constitution.

I think right now, the Republican Party is headed by Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in the House. I think our elected leaders, you know, are the ones who are in charge of the Republican Party.

we have to be honest about what happened in 2020, so we can really learn the lessons of that and that is the election was not stolen.

I wanted to remind the committee generally of something that President Truman said in NSC-68, which is timeless.

the notion that we are asking you simply to life-extend one more time technology from the 1970s is completely irresponsible.

We know that this kind of a pull back is reckless, it`s dangerous, it puts American security at risk. It will provide an opportunity for terrorists to be able to establish safe havens again.