John Boehner: “It may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world.”

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…

I`m a Republican actually, I`m a conservative Republican, but I`m not crazy and then they`ve got, I don`t know, these noisemakers I`ll call them. Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, I could go down a long list of people more interested in making noise…

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.