"You don’t start wars unless you have an exit plan. We had no exit plan."
"They can yell and -- and fundraise off of that. But I'll be the only Democrat that's going to tell America the truth of what shutting the government down. And that would be a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) disas..."
"It’s a CR that we all agree we don’t like — but for me we can’t ever allow the government to shut down."
"Total theater is neither honest with constituents nor a winning argument."
"I refuse to burn the village down in order to save it."
"If you shut it down, you will impact and hurt millions and millions and millions of Americans, and you run the risk of slipping us into a recession or even all kinds of other things."
"I refuse to burn the village down and to claim to save it."
""I refuse to burn the village down and to claim to save it," Fetterman said. "I probably won't agree with many facets of that CR, but when the choice is about shutting the government down, I don't wan..."
"Columbia let antisemitism run amok to cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs."
"Leadership allowed those a******* to take over the campus and terrorize Jewish students."
"Now, Columbia pays for its failure and I support that."
"I want to save billions of your money and make our government more efficient. Rummaging through your personal s--- is *not* that. A party of chaos loses — always."