Robert Gibbs: “I think there’s an apparatus that it’s built around this lie. It’s built around propagating this lie.”

I think Democrats have to show the country were capable and willing and able to govern.

I think Democrats and Republicans will get an agreement on this. It`s not in anybody`s interest to fight out the government shutdown at this point.

Look, I think Democrats had an awful night. And I think there’s no real sugarcoating that on a lot of different levels.

I think suburban voters, particularly in Texas, are going to wonder why their attorney general is spending a lot more time as a defendant than he is as a prosecutor.