"Considering a vote is a feature of a senator, not a bug."
"Why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do?"
"one-source hit piece, and it involved maybe two or three and anonymous disgruntled staffers saying just absolute false things."
"I got my ass kicked in."
"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."
"a one-source hit piece"
"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."