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

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 don't negotiate with a person who has taken the entire federal government hostage over a health care policy dispute.

We have to remember, why are we in this situation, Margaret? All these conversations about whether it's a temporary layoff or a permanent layoff – we are dealing with a terrible, chaotic situation, because Chuck Schumer and a few far left…

We want the government to reopen, but Chuck Schumer, the Democrats decided to shut down the government.

This isn't a negotiation. This is hostage-taking.

this is not a situation that we're excited about.

If Chuck Schumer wants to come into the Oval Office or come to my house, he is welcome to talk about how to fix health care policy for Americans.

we'll negotiate over health care policy, but only once you do your job and open up people's government.

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

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,’

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.

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

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.