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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
Nobody wants to shut down the government. -- Jeb Hensarling
I do not believe we should shut down the federal government. -- Ted Cruz
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. -- George Clooney
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda. -- Alan Greenspan
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. -- Lewis Black
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. -- Steve Womack
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
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
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
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
Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things. -- Rush Limbaugh
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives. -- Edmund Phelps
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security. -- Joe Lieberman
Most of the federal government could be shut down. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents -- Dennis Prager
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
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

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