STEVE INSKEEP, NPR: What do you offer? PRESIDENT OBAMA: Steve, when you say what can I offer, I shouldn't have to offer anything. They're not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. That's part of their basic function of government; that's not doing me a favor. That's doing what the America

BILL O'REILLY: I don't think President Obama can give in after Syria, that's the problem. He can't give in or he looks even weaker than he looked a couple weeks ago. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: He is not going to give in because this is not going to give him political advantage. This is a lifeline for an administration that's drowning. His numbers are

DENNIS MILLER: Like I said, I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless. But is there anyway you can bust on somebody now whose getting free health care and two years unemployment and you know the myriad of other benefits? Is there anyway, now, that you can go to a guy, 'Listen, we're picking up a lot of this, you've got to g

SARAH PALIN: Remember, President Obama when he was a candidate, promised he would go line by line through the budget and unfund things that were unnecessary and fund the things that were a priority. Well now it is his chance and Congressional leaders' chance to go line by line and fund those things that we need. Another thing GOP leadership nee

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) spars with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield over the budget battle in Congress. BANFIELD: Why connect the funding of the government, the entire U.S. economy, why bring it to this brink? Why not do it at all the other times? All of the other 100-plus congresses have been able to fund the government. ROHRABACHER: Well, have

SEN. TED CRUZ: "I'll tell you, unfortunately, I think Harry Reid wants to force a government shutdown. The House acted at 12:30 in the morning on Sunday. I think the Senate should have been called back in session on Sunday. Harry Reid decided to leave everyone home on their vacation on Sunday instead of calling us in to work. I think Harry Reid aff

ED HENRY, FNC: Jay, you’re saying you don’t know whether or not Iran will follow through on their promises, but the president did call the new president on Friday, of Iran, and sort of opened up diplomatic negotiations. So why not do the same with the House Republicans? You’re at a loggerheads, call them! JAY CARNEY: I appreciate the reass

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. Of all the responsibilities the Constitution endows to Congress, two should be fairly simple: Pass a budget, and pay America’s bills. But if the United States Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United States government will be forced to shut down tomorrow

GRETCHEN CARLSON: I guess we're just going to be real here for the next couple of minutes together. Thank you so much for your time. Speaking of animals, I saw this article that you wrote about hunters and flushing dogs. You used this analogy to talk about members of Congress. So, explain for everyone who you meant by flushing dogs and what they do

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) says a potential government shutdown would be especially harmful to women. Boxer says Republicans have targeted a part of the Affordable Care Act that benefits women's health.

CHUCK TODD: Andrea, think about 17 years ago. Seventeen years ago, President Clinton was not in as good of a place politically. Look, President Obama has had some troubles this summer and all of that, but he's in a better place right now politically than President Clinton was at that time. House Republicans and Senate Republicans were united on a s

Bob Woodward joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss whether a shutdown is unavoidable and who is to blame. Woodward calls the way in which Washington, D.C. is currently operating a “disaster.” David Axelrod explains why a shutdown becoming a “norm” would cause Americans to lose confidence in the government. "Isn’t there a moment when t

HARRY REID: I have heard the idea of a short-term extension floated. Let me be very clear, the Senate's bill is a short-term extension. That is what it is. This is a six-week funding bill, all it is, six weeks. If you cannot pass this, we are truly entering a banana republican mindset. This is what we look at other countries doing. The United State

WILLIE GEIST: Mark, at this point then, what is President Obama's incentive to negotiate? Because if he sits there, the law that he championed and the law that he got passed and the law that was upheld by the Supreme Court will go into effect. If he doesn't -- if he doesn't give anything up on this he gets what he wants. Why does he negotiate with

Funny or Die: Jennifer Hudson is searching for a scandal. Too bad the Affordable Care Act fixes all of them.

BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, what you saw -- you saw it in the interviews that you just did, is how the two sides view this. Senator Lee kept saying this is a bad law. And (inaudible) reasons why. Senator Kaine kept saying don't shut down the government. In fact, it was only Senator Kaine who mentioned the shutdown, and that'

In an interview with Steve Chaggaris of CBS News, RCP congressional reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns shares the mood on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers search for another eleventh-hour solution to keep the government open. In the words of New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, “this time is a little bit different.”

In an interview with Steve Chaggaris of CBS News, RCP political reporter Scott Conroy explains why Republicans at least have a chance to take back control of the Senate in 2014. He also gives in-depth updates on the Republican Senate primaries taking shape in Iowa and Kentucky.

President Barack Obama says he's "not at all" resigned to a government shutdown. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama said he'll speak with congressional leaders during the day to address the budget impasse. Q Mr. President, are you resigned to a government shutdown at this point? And given how c