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“Trump’s lies about the election had led to the violent assault on the Capitol. People had died. His ongoing attacks against the integrity of our elections were undermining our democracy, and could lead to still more violence. We had to find a way to defeat these fake stolen-election claims that had captured so much of the Republican Party. People had to hear the truth.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“Despite the brutal violence, destruction, and death at the Capitol, despite the fact that Donald Trump’s lies—the same lies Republicans were telling to justify the objections—had mobilized the mob and caused the attack, McCarthy was going to let the travesty go on. Kevin McCarthy lacked the courage and the honor to abide by his oath to the Constitution. This wasn’t leadership. It was cowardice, and it was craven. I wanted no part of it. I got up and walked out of the House chamber.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“But if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024, we must do everything we can to defeat him. If Trump is on the ballot, the 2024 presidential election will not just be about inflation, or budget deficits, or national security, or any of the many critical issues we Americans normally face. We will be voting on whether to preserve our republic. As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term. But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“Since January 6, we had met privately several times in a town house near Capitol Hill, along with a small group of experts on authoritarianism and the rise of antidemocratic movements. We agreed that the threat posed by Donald Trump might well imperil the existence of American democracy.”
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
― Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
“He wanted to be Byron, but guess what?" Pettit said. "Nobody reads Byron anymore. . . But everybody reads Poe. He Outlives Byron. He outpaces Byron. He outdoes Byron. He didn't get to be Byron, but he got to be Edgar Allan Poe. He's going to be the best-read American writer in the world, and you wish he could have known that.”
― A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
― A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
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