"I think it's going pretty well if the adults have taken over."
"I want to assure the witnesses, we understand that your time is valuable, but your stories are extraordinarily important."
"I am struck because we are talking not only about the shutdown, but we are also talking about this uncertainty about the debt limit and what interest rates--how they all affect all of you."
"If we default, if we continue to do this, we will reap the whirlwind of the consequences of that."
"When you are in a hole, stop digging."
"Damages will be visited on every American if we do this."
"The United States should honor its obligations and pay its bills in full and on time, period."
"Was it unethical to do it?"
"An amazing woman, as all of you are amazing and really pretty remarkable women who are doing something incredibly difficult and who have been doing something incredibly difficult for a very long perio..."
"So it was OK to just sign your name on to them without doing the ethical--doing the appropriate investigation?"
"It takes enormous courage to stand up."