Government Shutdown Quotes

• Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Impact, Government, Needs

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

  Roosh V

  Government, Giving, Littles

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

  Jay Leno

  Government, Worried, Starting

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, Government, Self

  "Partisan-in-chief Obama – crossing the line with America's federal workforce" By Tony Shaffer, www.foxnews.com. October 03, 2013.

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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.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Jobs, Government

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• 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.

  Claire McCaskill

  Distance, Party, Mind

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Years, Needs

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.527, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Harry Reid

  Bully, Today, Six

  "House, Senate Stay Faithful To Their Measures". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, David Greene, www.npr.org. October 1, 2013.

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• They've lost their minds.

  Harry Reid

  Mind, Lost

  "Blame game in full swing as US shuts down". "PM" with Mark Colvin, Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. October 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Doctors, Government

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• 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.

  Ezra Klein

  Government, World, Ends

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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.

  Paul Kengor

  White, Government, House

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

  Charles Schumer

  Simple, Ceilings, Debt

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• 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Underestimate, Clinton

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• 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.

  Devin Nunes

  Suicide, Jumping, Lemmings

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• What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

  John Culberson

  Principles, Matter, Core

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• 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.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Jobs, Government, Gone

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• 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.

  John Boehner

  America, People, President

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  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.

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

  Mike Lee

  Thinking, Government, Doe

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• 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.

  Jay Carney

  Foundation, World, Republican

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

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• 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.

  John McCain

  Country, Obamacare, Different

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