John Boehner: “The whole House mourns the passing of Speaker Jim Wright of the State of Texas.”

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.

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

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…

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