Quotes About Government Shutdown

#1. We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

Jay Leno

#2. How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

Jay Leno

#3. What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.

Trey Gowdy

#4. A government shutdown is inexcusable.

Darlene Senger

#5. 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Newt Gingrich

#6. So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Monica Lewinsky

#7. Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

Debbie Stabenow

#8. I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Mike Lee

#9. I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

Ted Cruz

#10. You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

William J. Clinton

#11. Procedures. Like "incident," this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. They've lost their minds.

Harry Reid

#13. 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

#14. Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

Peggy Orenstein

#15. There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up.

Liz Reinhardt

#16. Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.

Bill Maher

#18. Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, 'I can hardly blame them. Look at me.'

Craig Kilborn

#19. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

Michelle Bachelet

#20. The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

Lori Goodwin

#22. What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

John Culberson

#23. There's no way around grief. You have to go through it. You have to cry it out of your body, then wade through your own tears to the other side. Where there is cake. Moist cake. Have a piece. It will make you feel better. Have a second piece. Lick your fingers. You will feel better. I promise.

Nia Vardalos

#24. We, too, can divide ourselves, it's true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska