As of this morning, critical federal employees including members of the military, Border Patrol agents and air traffic controllers are working without pay.

Vote to open up the government, that issue goes away, right?

I don’t think shutdowns benefit anybody, least of all the American people.

This Democrat shutdown is actually delaying progress on the issues that Democrats claim to be interested in.

On the Democratic side, we think this is a battle worth fighting.

I’ve been very amazed at the comments I’ve got from federal workers who are saying they’ve been terrorized enough, they want us to push back.

As Donald Trump’s lawlessness grows during this shutdown, our spines should stiffen, not bend.

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.

The president has a lot of levers he could pull. This is one we could pull, but why would we pull that lever? Because that allows him to pull a lot more levers.

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

He seemed to understand for the first time the magnitude of this crisis.

Some people are actually scared about what’s going on in our country.

If you think your shutdown is a joke, it just proves what we all know: You can’t negotiate. You can only throw tantrums.

There are still large differences between us.

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

We’ve delayed and delayed and delayed.

The time is a-wasting. We have to do it now.

I am hoping there are enough reasonable Democrats over there.