John Boehner: “This is not about me and it's not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the American people.”

For a bill that was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, jobs, has turned into a bill that`s all about spending, spending, and spending.

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

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

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.