It's important that these hostages are coming home, and I congratulate the negotiators on getting this done.

They’d like to have Tomahawks. That’s a step up.

Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.

The departure of General Haugh is a loss for our nation but will be a tremendous gain for any private or public entity where he decides to lend his expertise and leadership.

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

But all it takes is a blip on the financial markets to delay certain trades by just milliseconds, to put the market into an entirely different attitude about the security and the soundness of being able to make those transactions happen.

Let’s hope there are 5 more Democrats who will join us, because despite all of the good work we’ve done, there’s a lot more we could do if the Schumer Shutdown ends.

They need patriots very badly.

If they just join with the moderate Democrats and the vast majority of Republicans, we can open up the government, and all these conversations will no longer be necessary.

I would be a sucker, Margaret, to vote for a budget that allows the president to then go and spend money only in states that are run by Republicans.

All it takes is a blip on the financial markets to delay certain trades by just milliseconds, to put the market into an entirely different attitude about the security and the soundness of being able to make those transactions happen.

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

We are confident, Margaret. Of course, we always follow the law, and we always follow court cases, and we think that we have the authority to do what we need to do.

Yes, Margaret, so knock on wood, but we feel very confident the hostages will be released.

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

Those are areas that they would love to [access] just so that when the time comes, in my opinion, they can look at it and simply say, 'We know where you're at. Don't mess with us. We're capable of causing real problems for you long term.'

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…

I did this not for Nobel.