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“They are celebrating that choice, both in Milwaukee tonight and in Moscow.”
— Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), quoted by The Hill, on Donald Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance as his running mate.
“This morning my wife informed me about a tweet from Nick Ayers, former good guy staffer of Mike Pence, making some typical alt right-pedophile-dem-and-the Republicans-were-peaceful-on-Jan-6 garbage message. Yet another one bites the dust. Nick Ayers was one of the good guys. But in the world of politics, campaign staff need money, and only the Trumpers are paying right now.”
“I’ve been out there saying there’s no way Donald Trump can win, I’ll vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, democracy is so important. You know how many calls or outreaches I have gotten from the Biden campaign? Guess. It’s zero.”
— Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told John Avlon on CNN that despite his warnings against Donald Trump, he’s never been contacted by the Biden campaign.
“Had I known that standing up for truth would cost me my job, friendships, and even my personal security, I would, without hesitation, do it all over again. I can rest easy at night knowing that I fulfilled my oath to the office.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), quoted by WLS, in his farewell speech from Congress.
“Liz Cheney and I are not courageous. There’s no strength in this. We’re just surrounded by cowards.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on Morning Joe, on why Republicans are having such a hard time condemning the violent assault on Paul Pelosi.
“Look, back before we had all the crazies here, just some crazies. You know, every vote we took, we had to somehow defund Obamacare… That’s going to look like child’s play in terms of what Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to demand of Kevin McCarthy. They’re going to demand an impeachment vote on President Biden every week. They’re going to demand things like, you know, let’s make abortion illegal in all circumstances.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), in a CNN interview, on what will happen if Republicans take control of the House.
“Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.”
— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), on Twitter.
“This is an admission, and a massively un-American statement. It is time for every Republican leader to pick a side… Trump or the Constitution, there is no middle on defending our nation anymore.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on Twitter, about Donald Trump’s first public admission that he sought to “overturn” the 2020 election.
“Let’s keep in mind, Mike Pompeo met with the Taliban. As Donald Trump was publicly saying, ‘We have to get out of Afghanistan at all costs. It’s not worth it,’ Mike Pompeo meets with the Taliban and tries to negotiate something.” He added: “They set this up to fail. But always, of course, Joe Biden could have easily turned this around, and instead used it as the excuse to get out.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) placed blame on the Trump administration for the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, saying its 2020 agreement with the Taliban sowed the seeds for the United States’ turbulent exit from the country, CNN reports.
“If the GOP doesn’t take a stand, the chaos of the past few months, and the past few years, could quickly return. The future of our party and our country depends on confronting what happened — so it doesn’t happen again.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argues in the Washington Post why his fellow Republicans must hold Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
