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If they just join with the moderate Democrats and the vast majority of Republicans, we can open up the government, and all these conversations will no longer be necessary.

We think that we have the authority to do what we need to do.

The government shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos.

This is not a situation that we're excited about.

We'll negotiate over health care policy, but only once you do your job and open up people's government.

If Chuck Schumer wants to come into the Oval Office or come to my house, he is welcome to talk about how to fix health care policy for Americans.

This isn't a deal-making, this isn't a negotiation, this is hostage-taking.

We don't negotiate with a person who has taken the entire federal government hostage over a health care policy dispute.

If you’re an American citizen and you’ve been to the hospital in the last few years, you’ve probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who’s there in the ER is an illegal alien.

Because we won’t give billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens.

The Chuck Schumer, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us ‘We will open the government but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal…

Do I hope, eventually, that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.

If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.

Let’s work on it together, but let’s do it in the context of an open government that’s providing essential services to the American people.

I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.

I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.

I think we are headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.

We know that American health care policy is broken.

I think we're headed to a shutdown.

I think the answer is, hopefully not that much, but certainly our attitude here is we're going to keep on working for peace, and we hope the Russians actually wake up to the reality on the ground.

How many more people are they willing to lose? How many more people are they willing to kill for very little, if any, gain in the military advantage on the ground there?

The Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here.

I don’t know. Define Rubicon.

But it is every day unrelenting.