Jim DeMint: “Pakistan is a government without a country and Afghanistan is a country without a government.”

We've got to determine what we're going to do about it. A missile defense is going to be a key.

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

I think Senator DeMint had a really interesting concept.

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.