John Boehner: “The American people have also made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates.”

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

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

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.

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