John Boehner: “It was not a serious proposal. And so right now, we're almost nowhere.”

You will never know where you will end up. That`s freedom.

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…

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

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.