John Boehner

The speaker is making very clear in private and public, he's not going to do anything that is clean on the debt ceiling.

It's an unmitigated disaster, saying it's a system-wide failure much more than glitches and asking how can the administration require people to pay taxes, meaning penalties for not purchasing something on a web site that doesn't work?

This isn't some damn game. The American people don't want their government shutdown and neither do I.

Times like this, the American people expect their leaders to come together and to try to find ways to resolve their differences. The president reiterated one more time tonight that he will not negotiate. I wish, I would hope that the…

My goodness, they won't even sit down and have a discussion.

We're not going to be left holding the hot potato here.

It's time for the Senate to listen to the American people just like the House has listened to the American people.

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

I don't expect the government to close up shop and it now looks like he and other GOP leaders are focusing on the next looming battle, raising the debt ceiling in mid-October.

Jobs continue to be our number one priority here in the Congress.

The American people don't want the government shut down and they don't want Obamacare.

Every member in this room is for de-funding Obamacare, while letting the rest of the Government continue to operate.

We've got a lot of divergent opinions in the caucus. And the key to any leadership job is to listen. We listen to our colleagues over the course of the last week. We have a plan that they're happy with. We're going forward.

It's the wrong way to go.

There are some who question now as whether he could win.

Congress should be consulted before any action is taken.

The president was more concerned about saving face than defending these programs.

It's a giant violation of the law.

John Boehner, the House speaker today compared immigration reform to Obamacare, which is a four letter word for Republicans, that kind of says it all.

John Boehner, the House speaker today, compared immigration reform to Obama care which is, as you know, a kind of a four-letter word for Republicans.

As John Boehner said, he wants people to go to jail.

The First Amendment is first for a reason, that the Obama administration is going after reporters' phone records, they better have a damned good explanation.

What a privilege he felt it was to serve.

Tom never lost that sense of wonder.

It's important for us who feel a responsibility to fight for a cause to recognize that our cause is not advanced if we can't also try to achieve compromise.