Political Quotes

John Boehner

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53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015

Quotes by year · 1994–2022470 total · peak 2011 (85)
1994: 13 quotes1995: 1 quote1996: 4 quotes1997: 4 quotes1998: 1 quote2000: 1 quote2001: 13 quotes2002: 4 quotes2003: 10 quotes2004: 8 quotes2005: 4 quotes2006: 67 quotes2007: 21 quotes2008: 8 quotes2009: 19 quotes2010: 39 quotes2011: 85 quotes2012: 58 quotes2013: 47 quotes2014: 20 quotes2015: 15 quotes2016: 3 quotes2017: 3 quotes2018: 2 quotes2021: 19 quotes2022: 1 quote
Jul 23, 2014

Speaker Boehner has strongly voiced his objection to this kind of abuse.

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Jul 9, 2014

House Republicans answering President Obama's challenge to either get things done or if he tries to do it for him, sue him for trying.

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Jul 9, 2014

That's not the way our system of government was designed to work

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Jun 10, 2014

I will have the Members know that the gentleman from Iowa has announced that this will be his last term in Congress. On behalf of the House, I want to thank Mr. Latham for his 20 years of service to the House, thank him for all those years…

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May 22, 2014

And my colleagues, today we will take up the NSA reform bill. I rise today to thank Chairman Rogers, Chairman Goodlatte, Mr. Conyers, and all, in a bipartisan way, who have come to address this very critical reform at a time when America…

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May 6, 2014

Democrats have opted for a government takeover of health care.

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Mar 11, 2014

There should be another round of BRAC. We have bases that are unnecessary. They need to go.

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Feb 27, 2014

Even John Boehner when he issued a statement today, critical statement of the president saying in effect that the U.S. has been too weak to this point. He talked about maximizing economic and political punishment at this point.

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Jan 27, 2014

If he tries to ignore the will of the Congress in Boehner's words he's going to run into a quote brick wall.

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Jan 27, 2014

The president should be very, very careful with these executive orders.

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Jan 27, 2014

He only needs 8 of the 50 competitive districts and he's speaker again.

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Jan 27, 2014

He hopes they have learned their lesson in terms of tactics that work and tactics that don't work.

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Nov 18, 2013

Members of Congress should be held to the highest standards, but this should be handled through the courts and by his family and his constituents.

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Oct 28, 2013

The torture, the arbitrary arrests, you know, with Guo Feixiong and the Nobel Peace winner, Liu Xiaobo

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Oct 17, 2013

Your loss is ours, it's just that simple. Here was a man who loved, in this order, God, his family, his country, and the House Appropriations Committee.

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Oct 17, 2013

Perhaps his greatest gift to the body was the simplest one, and that was his fundamental sense of decency.

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Oct 17, 2013

Bill Young wasn't just a leading man of the House--he was the House.

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Oct 17, 2013

The Honorable Thomas S. Foley, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died on October 18, 2013.

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Oct 9, 2013

Our message in the House has been pretty clear. We want to reopen our government and provide fairness to all Americans under the President's health care law. This law had a big rollout last week. It has been called an ``inexcusable mess,''…

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Oct 7, 2013

The long and short of it is, there is going to be a negotiation here. We can't raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means.

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Oct 6, 2013

The president's refusal to negotiate is hurting our economy and putting our country at risk.

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