But my point is, Margaret, that we have to do layoffs because we have to preserve necessary resources to do the most critical things that the government does.

The president convinced the entire Muslim world really, both the Gulf Arab states, but as far in Southeast Asia as Indonesia, to really step up and provide ground troops so that Gaza could be secured in safety.

Well, look, as the president said, you have to remember, the war started because of a brutal terrorist attack on Israeli soil, and we've been laser-focused on eliminating the terrorist threat to the Israelis, while also ensuring that the…

We want the government to reopen, but Chuck Schumer and the Democrats decided to shut down the government, and we have to deal with the consequences in the administration.

The president was criticized for it. The diplomatic team was criticized for it. But I think that, because he chose a different pathway, we are now on the cusp of a sustainable peace in the Middle East.

this isn't a deal-making, this isn't a negotiation, this is hostage-taking.

we think that we have the authority to do what we need to do.

It is going to take consistent leverage and consistent pressure from the president of the United States on down.

We think that the Arab countries, the Muslim-majority countries, are going to step up in a big way with troops on the ground.

I don’t think you should rule out impeachment.

I would say: ‘Here are my problems. What can you do to help me? Work with me. Don’t just shove stuff down my throat,’

because we won’t give billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens.

If you’re an American citizen and you’ve been to the hospital in the last few years, you’ve probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who’s there in the ER is an illegal alien.

The Chuck Schumer, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us ‘We will open the government but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal…

Do I hope, eventually, that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.

If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.

I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.

Let’s work on it together, but let’s do it in the context of an open government that’s providing essential services to the American people.