Darlene Senger Quotes

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

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

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

I think it is unwise to shut down the government.

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.

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

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

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.

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

We can't have the government of the United States shut down when a group doesn't like something. This is almost an act of insurrection.

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

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 and say, 'You're fired.'

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

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

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

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

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.