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

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

My concern now is we are equating pro-growth economic policies with more government spending.

So they'll have to bill that cost into the cost of their product.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.