Government Shutdown Impact Quotes

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

A government shutdown is inexcusable.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

We don't want to see the government shut down.

I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.