Latest Adam Schiff Quotes from Interviews

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• It was an echo of Director Comey's testimony that Trump showed no curiosity, no interest, no concern over the Russia hack. The only element of it that concerned him was how it might impact him personally. That says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Curiosity, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

  Adam Schiff

  World, Democratic

  Source: www.pbs.org

• All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and we need the president Trump help. We can't do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

  Adam Schiff

  Dirty, Democracy, Working Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.

  Adam Schiff

  Fashion, Working Together, Social Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton. They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Tears, Tough

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with. They're essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.

  Adam Schiff

  Trying, Strategy, Attorney

• I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn't come out of the political process, someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy.

  Adam Schiff

  Giving, Judging, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place. If they exist, Congress needs to get them. If they're not provided willingly, Congress should subpoena them. And if they're not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.

  Adam Schiff

  President, Different, Being The Best

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general. The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia. And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.

  Adam Schiff

  Cop, Disturbed, Committed

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• There was certainly merit to the criticism that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had about how James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton investigation. And I don't think Director Comey ever adequately explained why he treated the Clinton investigation one way and the Trump investigation another.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Criticism, Clinton

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation. That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president, by his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job, and the president brings up whether he is under investigation, highly unethical, at a minimum, unethical.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, House, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy. We know that the evidence or information is sufficient to warrant an FBI investigation of this. We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently. Obviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.

  Adam Schiff

  Eye, Democracy, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people. In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.

  Adam Schiff

  People, Done, Circumstances

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they're the best intelligence gatherers in the world. They're dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

  Adam Schiff

  Jobs, Patriotic, Good Relationship

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn't seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.

  Adam Schiff

  Home, Fighting, Russia

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.

  Adam Schiff

  Russia, Movement, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas. And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they're coming to visit or stay with.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, Responsibility, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

  Adam Schiff

  Years, Immigration, Gaps

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.

  Adam Schiff

  Views, Example, Courses

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Worried, Should

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present.

  Adam Schiff

  Clock Is Ticking, People, Danger

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don't want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.

  Adam Schiff

  Mean, President, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.

  Adam Schiff

  Long, Pace, Magnet

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

  Adam Schiff

  Thumbs, Too Much

  Source: www.foxnews.com