"What they want to do is break down our faith in institutions. They want to break down our faith in democracy."
"There is no more greater catastrophe that we could endure than if people actually believed, for legitimate reasons, that an election, a national election, had been stolen."
"We do not have evidence of them altering the outcome of any election."
"This is not new. This did not just start in 2016 or 2018."
"I think they have not seen it as in their interest yet to cause a disruption."
"This legislation will save lives or, in some cases, the lack of this legislation will cost lives."
"Thank you for taking it seriously. We sent this letter nearly six months ago. Whether you agree or disagree, I do think that you owe us a response on this."
"The deal we ended up with now is worse than we had before the shutdown."
"It is a little bit of Republicans are from Mars and Democrats are from Venus."
"Unbridled debt, an uncontrollable debt, would be an existential threat to this country."
"There are things that we may want to do, but we simply don't have the money."
"We believe in the States' rights. We believe there should be regulation. It has to be predictable though."