Political Quotes

“Good morning. Tanner is giving me this look like, Hey, it's just Boehner. Leave him alone. Let me say on behalf of all of my colleagues, welcome. Thank you for your years of service here in this institution. Let me congratulate Ray LaHood on being this year's Distinguished Service Award winner. I'm not sure I would have given it to him, but you all did. Just teasing. But, listen, I'm trying to keep this institution focused on a couple of simple things. One is growing the economy. You all know the economy is not growing the way it should be. It's not creating jobs as fast as it should be, and wages aren't going up as quickly. And so there's a lot of things that I think we need to continue to do to get our economy going again. But having said that, there are always other things that crop up around here. You're all familiar with Benghazi, and now the Justice Department's investigation of the Associated Press, and then the IRS of all things. So in spite of trying to keep the institution focused on what the American people are most interested in, we end up also having to do our other responsibility, which is providing oversight of the executive branch, and we will do that. In addition to that, I continue to believe and continue to work to make this a more open and fairer process for all the Members. If you look over the last couple of years, the minority has gotten more than its fair share of amendments.…”