"We have a system of checks and balances... held the line against Donald Trump's attacks on American democracy."
"President Trump has rejected white supremacy like 57 times in four years."
"It's not insurrection to follow a constitutional process."
"The Democratic Party is not the stupid party. People on the left keep attacking me, but the Democrats are not the stupid party."
"We are here today because Maga Republicans would do anything to protect Donald Trump, their savior." - Hank Johnson
"I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional."
"I will defend the Judeo-Christian foundation our nation is built on and protect our religious liberty."
"This was an attempt to overthrow the constitution and overthrow the government. They're going to come back; we have to be ready next time."
"So desperate to distract... Now you're trying to shift the focus by baselessly attacking Representative Bowman to score cheap political points." - "Ms. Ocasio-Cortez"
"The Republican Party will always defend the principles at the heart of our republic."
"Nobody punches back, Nikki Haley punched back yesterday, and it was effective to a certain extent."
"Defending liberty is not easy. Election fraud is a serious threat."
"DeSantis has put out a statement: 'The insinuation that Florida is underutilizing vaccines is totally disingenuous.'"
"Former President Donald Trump stood unflinching, ready to debunk myths and set the record straight."
"How do you impeach a president who didn't do anything wrong?"
"They are heroes for at least defending democracy."
"We're standing fast against the assault on our public order and republican order by the left."
"No serious person thinks that Donald Trump is a white supremacist."
"You know Jack Smith has thick skin and why shouldn't Trump have the right to fight back when others are bringing up his transgressions during these trials during the campaign right they go on the debate stage and everybody's attacking him."
"Keep the faith and keep defending the institutions." - Timothy Snyder
"Trump was defending both liberalism and conservatism."
"There is no collusion and no obstruction. I should be given apology!"
"President Trump is not a racist. This is a tactic that's being used precisely to generate fear."
"This hurts the American brand. We don't do this in America. We don't go after the Office of the President with pornstar cases." - Kevin O'Leary
"Trump is the last firewall between us and the cesspool called Washington."
"Cuomo's defense: Some encounters were just misunderstandings related to 'cultural differences.'"
"No one defends the Republican party better than Joe."
"Anyone who has attempted to directly justify Boris Johnson's behavior... has come out looking... like an absolute mug."
"The lies that drove the anger and madness we saw in this place have not abated, so we have to be firm, resolute, and unyielding in our defense of the right to vote and to have that vote counted."
"We will defend our values as well as our interests."
"She is correct about this and as you know I've been very critical of Kellyanne Conway for being an over-the-top Lackey for the Trump administration well she is not wrong on this one."
"If they don’t impeach me, it’s because they don’t think they have anything to impeach me for."
"We had a great Administration. We didn't have a disaster like Afghanistan."
"Of course, the best evidence that there was no pressure or quid pro quo is the statements of the Ukrainians themselves."
"Nothing manifestly immoral about promoting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama."
"Biden as the defender of our Republic's values and Trump as the opposite."
"It serves no purpose to suggest that the commander-in-chief President Joe Biden failed the American people or did anything wrong."
"Nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend him."
"To claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie."
"Donald Trump didn't do this. Donald Trump didn't do this at all."
"They literally, they put it as an account, but going after the people who are willing to defend you or going after those who have a different theory of the law when there are questions about that law."
"Peter Navarro exercises constitutional right to protect executive privilege...we're not going to shred it on a case-by-case basis."
"President Obama separated children from families, and all I did was take the same law and then I softened the law."
"I don't think that anyone other than Donald Trump would fight back this way and I think that's why he is the right man for the job at this specific moment."
"This is just a smear tactic, but we're gonna pull back the layers of it."
"Donald Trump got defended by Matt Gaetz for his many, many sexual assaults, and he's not repaying it."
"Trump doesn't need to show up and appear because he's innocent as can be."
"The Democratic party is the one that believes in defending a democracy against Russia, and that's a favor to the Democrats." - Jake Tapper
"The right to bear arms is the only thing standing between us and an unmasked dictatorship."
"Abolishing the cartel for milked dairy and poultry... a Canadian family would save four hundred dollars a year."
"If you are not defending the St. Louis gun couple, you just don't get it."
"Assume all those things are true. Fine. If you think that, if you think that I'm really funded by the Chinese government and I'm doing this as some sort of a gift, it should be so much easier to address my arguments."
"Candace Owens is not a white supremacist. Enrique Tarrio is not a white supremacist. The Proud Boys are not a white supremacist organization, and Donald Trump is not a white supremacist. Just drop it, the narrative is fake..."
"He began the House manager's task of preemptively dismantling Trump's defense."
"All that House Democrats have succeeded in proving is that the President did absolutely nothing wrong."
"We're the Defenders of democracy, and the Republicans... want to take away your rights."
"My sentence is higher than anybody's unlike everybody else was a governor I never did get it take a penny, it was politics, it wasn't personal corruption."
"The Tories are the defenders of... free speech and critical debate."
"We are changing Washington. Never forget that they're coming after me because I am fighting for you."
"Trump keeps putting out the worst defense: 'There was no quid pro quo' instead of the best defense: 'Of course there was a quid pro quo.'"
"The accusation against the President is that he had help winning the election, and that's simply untrue."
"The right is defending...the traditional consensus...that has bound us together as citizens for most of our history."
"It's an act of patriotism to defend the constitutional rights of the president."
"There's no obstruction of justice there was nothing to obstruct in the sense that the President had nothing to hide because he did not collude with the Russians."
"...Constantine died having fended off the attempt at usurpation by Romanus... he had succeeded in keeping the Macedonian dynasty going."
"As a passionate defender of the Union, he increasingly believed in using any expedient against those who would dismantle the world's greatest experiment in democracy."
"Our democracy is worth defending, worth fighting for."