The president was criticized for it. The diplomatic team was criticized for it. But I think that, because he chose a different pathway, we are now on the cusp of a sustainable peace in the Middle East.

It is going to take consistent leverage and consistent pressure from the president of the United States on down.

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.

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.

Let’s work on it together, but let’s do it in the context of an open government that’s providing essential services to the American people.

I think we're headed to a shutdown.

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

We know that American health care policy is broken.

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

The Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here.

How many more people are they willing to lose? How many more people are they willing to kill for very little, if any, gain in the military advantage on the ground there?

I think the answer is, hopefully not that much, but certainly our attitude here is we're going to keep on working for peace, and we hope the Russians actually wake up to the reality on the ground.

Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

I don’t give a s— what you call it.

It protects Americans' data security.

Violence is not OK in our system, and we want to make it less likely that that happens.

If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo.

The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop.

The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.

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