This Will Not Pass Quotes

“On Trump’s watch, Republicans had lost the House, Senate, and White House—the first time a sitting president had lost all three in one term since Herbert Hoover. And that was before a mob inspired by the president ransacked the country’s seat of government.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“The G.O.P. was given a choice between dishonor and defeat,” Romney wrote. “They chose dishonor. They will have defeat.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“Eight other Republicans, including Hawley and Cruz, objected to the votes from one or more states, even as the Capitol was still stained with the mud and blood of insurrectionists”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“You know that great line that you hear all the time: ‘This is not us. This is not us. This is not America,’ ” Turnbull said. “You know what? It is, actually.” “It was too broad a section of the community to be complacent about,” he said.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“Anna Eshoo, the senior California lawmaker close to Pelosi, had a painful conversation with her daughter about the experience of interacting with Republicans after the riot. To the seventy-eight-year-old Californian, after a quarter century in Congress, the physical space of the Capitol felt defiled. There was a pervasive sense of violation, she says: “I think it’s with all of us—that they were there, what they did, what they said, how they desecrated the place and how close we came to the government being overthrown.” When her daughter asked how it felt to go to work with Republicans who were still denying the election results, Eshoo offered one of the most wrenching comparisons imaginable. “It feels like being in the same room with your rapist,” she recalls saying.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“Narcissistic asshole syndrome is incurable after seventy.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

“When her daughter asked how it felt to go to work with Republicans who were still denying the election results, (Anna) Eshoo offered one of the most wrenching comparisons imaginable. "It feels like being in the same room with your rapist.”
― Alexander Burns, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy