"You can bet in every impeachment that follows, whether it is a presidential impeachment or the impeachment of a judge, if that judge or president believes it is to his or her advantage that there shall be a trial with no witnesses, they will cite the case of Donald J. Trump."
"If we tell the president effectively you can act corruptly...and when you're caught, you can further abuse your powers by concealing the evidence of your wrongdoing, the president becomes unaccountable to anyone."
"As we consider this critical decision, it's important to remember that no matter what you decide to do here, whether you decide to hear witnesses and relevant testimony, the facts will come out in the end."
"Though much divides us on this, we should agree. A trial, stripped of all its trappings, should be a search for the truth, and that requires witnesses and testimony."
"Only Donald Trump of any defendant in America can insist on a trial with no witnesses. If that should be true...the government becomes arbitrary because whether you have a fair trial or no trial at all depends on whether you're a person of power and influence like Donald Trump."
"If we have a fair trial, we can disagree about the verdict, but we can all agree the system worked as it was intended. We had a fair trial, and we reached a decision. Rob this country of a fair trial, and there can be no representation that the verdict has any meaning."
