Most of the federal government could be shut down.

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…

— Jay Leno

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

— Harold Washington

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

— Dennis Prager

During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened…

— Mitt Romney

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of…

— Rush Limbaugh

We don't want to see the government shut down.

— Dick Durbin

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…

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Ted Cruz

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

— Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

— Ron Johnson

We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we…

— Thom Tillis

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

— Martin O'Malley

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it…

— Donald Rumsfeld

I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr