Quotes About Government Shut Down

#1. During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times.

Mitt Romney

#2. The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

Newt Gingrich

#3. If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Revenge is never pretty and often leaves you empty.
Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews

C.J. Ellisson

#6. You can't express inspiration without skill.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#7. I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

Jay Leno

#8. The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

Chris Pavone

#9. Mickey Mouse is just a rat in suspenders.

Stuart Gibbs

#10. There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

T. S. Eliot

#11. The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

Peter Diamandis

#12. [P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Tamora Pierce

#13. As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place their government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues.

Rick Weiland

#15. Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

Steve Womack

#16. The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

Dan Castellaneta

#17. They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one of these groups said, 'Well, we never thought it would work.' Are you kidding me?!

John Boehner

#18. Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Dennis Prager

#19. Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

John Shelby Spong

#20. The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

Jemima Khan

#21. Nobody wants to shut down the government.

Jeb Hensarling

#22. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.

Bernadette Allen

#23. For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Jesse Ventura

#24. Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

Troy Polamalu

#25. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that.

John Waters

#26. Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

David Scott

#27. One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Barack Obama

#28. We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.

Marsha Blackburn

#29. Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

Vince Staples

#30. Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible.

Kelly Williams Brown

#31. There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me.

Nayyirah Waheed

#32. I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

Ted Cruz

#33. There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Lewis Black