"Nothing before us proves illegality of the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election. Nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt was incited without any evidence. The constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role" — Mitch McConnell
"This election was not unusually close. 1976, 2000, and 2004 were all closer than this. The electoral college margin was almost identical to what it was 2016. If this election were overturned by the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral" – McConnell
"Self-government requires a shared commitment to the truth and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system. We can not continue drifting into two different tribes with two different set of facts and two different realities" — McConnell
"The media who is outraged today spent 4 years aiding and abetting Democrats' attacks on our institutions after they lost. We must not imitate and escalate what we repudiate. We must govern for the greater good" — McConnell
"We will either hasten down a dangerous path where only the winners of elections accept the results, or muster the patriotic character that our forebearers showed not only in victory but in defeat. The framers designed the Senate to stop passions from boiling over" — McConnell
"The peaceful passing of the torch is extolled by second-graders, but not some of those here" — Chuck Schumer
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