John Boehner: “The American people understand that tax hikes destroy jobs.”

Even though I didn`t really want to go the direction where the team`s gone, they were the ones who elected me to be the leader, and I had an obligation to go lead them.

I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder.

I want to work with you. But I`m just stuck.

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