Jeff Flake actually said...

if you just dismiss all of that and just talk politics, at some point here soon, Republicans are going to have to decide whether or not they...

Any time that you stand and say, I own the shutdown, then you own it.

When I did, after all that we knew about what was going on and heard about from afar, when I arrived there and saw still things functioning ...

the Senate will be a less august chamber without you, sir.