Pete Gallego Quotes

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

I think it is unwise to shut down the government.

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

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

A government shutdown is inexcusable.

The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.

I don't see people who are eager for shutdowns. While some people have a romantic ideal about shutdowns, the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats believe you have to try to work problems out rather than having a shutdown.

I don't want to shut down the government.

I don't want to shut down government.

I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.

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.'

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.

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.

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

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.

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

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

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

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.

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.