John Boehner: “What a privilege he felt it was to serve.”

Let me just be clear here. A debt limit increase without any reforms to lower our deficit just isn`t going to cut it.

This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen in the 19 years I have been here in Washington.

I think there’s a point here where the American people are wondering, is the president above the law? The president could have put this whole issue behind us, not put the country and the world through this misery, if he had just told us…

I`m a Republican actually, I`m a conservative Republican, but I`m not crazy and then they`ve got, I don`t know, these noisemakers I`ll call them. Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, I could go down a long list of people more interested in making noise…