Shutdown Quotes

It’s time to get real. This isn’t a game. People will be hurt by your intransigence.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations and then shut up shop

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.

You're out of business!

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

In the Israeli system, if the Knesset cannot reach agreement on a budget by the end of the year, one-twelfth of the previous year’s budget is automatically appropriated each month for 6 months. If at the end of 6 months, there is still no agreement, we automatically call new elections. We have never had to call an election.

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

A government shutdown provides opportunities for both political parties to raise money from their base.

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

Put the 'off' button on.

The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

I think it is unwise to shut down the government.

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

I don't want to shut down the government.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.