John Boehner: “It was leading to a, quote, ``net loss of people with health insurance,'' end quote.”

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

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…

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

The modern Republican Party is filled with, as John Boehner put it, people who spend more time tearing things apart than actually building anything.