Political Quotes

“I am here today to talk about the ongoing partial government shutdown, the crisis along the southern border, and how we can resolve this in a responsible way. We are now on day 28 of the government shutdown, and I am more discouraged now than I have been during this entire impasse. We are better than this. We are stuck. Eight hundred thousand workers have missed a paycheck, and there is no end in sight. NASA workers in Cleveland, TSA employees at our airports across Ohio, Coast Guard officers on Lake Erie--they have all contacted me, as have others. But the harm being done to these families and these workers isn't the only thing that is happening with the shutdown. I have been through five of these shutdowns since I worked in the White House for the first President Bush. I remember in 1990 when we had a weekend shutdown, and everybody thought that was dramatic. Here we are with the longest shutdown in our history. I don't like government shutdowns. I don't think they are good for taxpayers. Every shutdown, we always end up paying more as taxpayers. I don't think anybody likes them--at least not anybody outside the beltway. Some in both parties seem to like to use shutdowns, but they are not good for families who are affected, and they are not good for the economy. They cost the taxpayers more.…”