"Didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me...The group of people that supported Trump, the hundreds of thousands of people who attended those rallies, those are the people that love this country. They would never have done what happened on January 6th."
-- Sen. Ron Johnson

"The one person I don't blame is Donald Trump."
-- Sen. Tim Scott on Capitol attack

"We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’ or whatever he said he was doing." 

-- Pennsylvania county GOP chairman Dave Ball, on censuring Sen. Pat Toomey for voting “guilty” in Trump impeachment trial 

"What happened at the Capitol on January 6th was absolutely horrific, but what happened at the Capitol during this trial was not too far away from that."
-- Trump attorney Michael van der Veen

"Clearly, there was no insurrection."
-- Trump attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., on Friday

"The question before us is not whether there was a violent insurrection of the Capitol. On that point everyone agrees."
-- Trump attorney Michael T. Van der Veen, on Saturday

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."
-- Trump to House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, whose office windows were being smashed as he urged the President to tell rioters to stop the attack on the Capitol

"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution."
-- Trump tweet, shortly after Pence refused to overturn election results and was evacuated during attack on Capitol

"These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love and in peace. Remember this day forever!"
-- Trump, tweeting at 6:01 p.m. after the attack on the Capitol

"I think most Republicans found the presentation by the House Managers offensive and absurd..."
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham on yesterday's evidence

"If you were to take [Trump's speech at the January 6th "Save America" rally] and compare it literally to any stump speech ever given in the history of politics, you would see no deviation."
-- Donald Trump Jr.