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“If you find that the House has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history, but if you find the courage to stand up to him, to speak the awful truth to his rank falsehood, your place will be among the Davids who took on Goliath,” Schiff said, appearing to address Republican senators in particular. “Is there one among you who will say, ‘enough’?”
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
“All we ever get to know is this one moment, he thinks, this single now. The darkness releases us, and then the darkness takes us back, and if it’s not pure and abject fear that keeps us living, then what else can it be?”
― The Abstainer
― The Abstainer
“Those first few weeks are a delirious blur of memories: a welcome dinner for new members in Statuary Hall, where Eve and I were seated with Dick Gephardt and his wife, Jane, laughing about how Adam and Eve were dining with Dick and Jane”
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
“Mitch McConnell so graphically demonstrated when he withheld the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in a shocking act of constitutional disrespect for two other branches of government. Without question, the most profound and relentless assault on our democracy would come during the years of the Trump presidency. But even then, it was the willingness of members of the legislative branch to go along with his serial”
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
― Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
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