Adam Schiff

"Honestly, it was painful."

"But if we were going to have hearings, it is obvious who should come."

"It's hard for me to imagine all of that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month."

"There would have been an effort to persuade the country that, what, it didn’t happen or it’s overblown or who knows what the explanation would have been."

"They're an anti-truth party."

"I'm honored to have been named to serve on the January 6th select committee."

"We don’t know how far they run, and our new attorney general has to find out."

"That is, I think, a terrible abuse of power."

"Half of the Republican voters out there think that is still the president or still should be, that Biden lost the election."

"I wanted to explain my journey from prosecutor to congressman with a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right and archenemy of a president."

"Mr. Swalwell will continue to make great contributions to our national security."

"That means you're not ruling it out. Yes?"

"Kevin McCarthy stands for nothing except the perpetuation of his own position."

"It's something obviously that's under review."

"What Kevin McCarthy is saying in that photo is, 'I don't stand for anything, I don't care about anything, I accept my own personal ambition.'"

"I don't think he can be trusted with it now and in the future, he certainly can't be trusted."

Schiff suggested Trump "may even try to pardon himself."

"These actions are an abuse of power and fundamentally undermine the rule of law."

"I should not need to remind you that your oath is only to the Constitution of the United States, and not to any President or party."

"Donald Trump thinks it’s in his personal interest, or he thinks it’s in his future political interest. And he has always but his personal interests above those of the nation."