Government shutdown day 10: Electricity still works. Water…

The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy…

— Mike Leach

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

— Debbie Stabenow

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

— Mike Lee

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open…

— Mick Mulvaney

I don't want to be president. Like, "Today your job is Libya, Japan, unemployment, the government shutdown - oh, and by the way, Yemen,…

— Rachel Maddow

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.

— Dan Crenshaw

A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It's a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover…

— Ezra Klein

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End…

— Rush Limbaugh

A government shutdown is inexcusable.

— Darlene Senger

As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to…

— Paul Kengor

The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in…

— Noam Chomsky

I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible… [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“About 98% of the women I coach are sensually shutdown. It’s not that they don’t want to experience extraordinary love, they can’t because they…

— Lebo Grand

“Things must be getting bad in the solar photovoltaic industry if they are now required to install solar module level DC shutdown systems!”

— Steven Magee

“Computers break down. A lot. Especially if you’ve got an old one that doesn’t work so good anymore and you have to shut programs…

— Bathroom Readers' Institute