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  • Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

  • So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

    Jobs   Government   Gone  
  • You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

    Bully   Today   Six  
    "House, Senate Stay Faithful To Their Measures". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, David Greene, www.npr.org. October 1, 2013.
  • They've lost their minds.

    "Blame game in full swing as US shuts down". "PM" with Mark Colvin, Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. October 1, 2013.
  • I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

  • As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to make the government shutdown as uncomfortable as they can. The White House is actively soliciting complaints from the general public on 'how the government shutdown has affected you.' These testimonies are tools sought for the propaganda kit; the better to agitate with.

  • Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.

  • We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

  • I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

    Government   Years   Two  
    "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.
  • Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

  • The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

    Simple   Ceilings   Debt  
  • It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

    Distance   Party   Mind  
  • I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the America people.

  • None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

    "Partisan-in-chief Obama – crossing the line with America's federal workforce" By Tony Shaffer, www.foxnews.com. October 03, 2013.
  • What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

  • A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

    Government   World   Ends  
    Source: www.today.com
  • I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.

  • Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

  • 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

  • What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

    "Carney: GOP threatens economy" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 01, 2013.
  • 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.

    Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.527, Best Books on
  • How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

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