John Boehner: “I have a quote here from Senator Ervin during that debate and he said, ``This amendment is to take the political hands…”

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.

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

I'd rather set myself on fire than to run for office again.

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…