John Boehner

We are sent here to do what's right, and sometimes doing what's right is hard and it's not free; and yet that's the measure of leadership.

I hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle complaining about the President's sequester. It is the President that insisted that this sequester be part of the Budget Control Act a year and a half ago. It is the President who has…

We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.

We shouldn't have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.

That's why the House has twice passed legislation to replace it with commonsense cuts and reforms that won't threaten public safety, national security or the economy -- or our economy. Once again, the president offered no credible plan…

It was never the objective of Gramm-Rudman to trigger sequester.

The fact of the matter is sequestration is something that both sides have their skin in the game.

I am quite disappointed that we are not in session next week.

Trying to pick a whale of a fight over the debt ceiling

If you come here humbled by the opportunity to serve, if you have come here to be the determined voice of the people, if you have come here to carry the standard of leadership not demanded by our constituents but by the times, then you…

Fiscal handcuffs on this Congress that are sorely needed.

It seems to be that he wants to make the point that he understands what these Democrats were talking about on the floor, that compromise isn't easy and you don't always get what you want.

We're not interested in passing something without -- with a majority of Democrats, without the majority of his own caucus.

But we can't cut our way to prosperity. We need real economic growth.

Fiscal handcuffs on this Congress that are sorely needed.

We need to attack the spending. And we need to not just raise taxes, because even if we, for argument's sake, give the president every tax increase he wants, we are still looking at a trillion-dollar debt every single year. We need to…

Congress is ultimately responsible for legislative changes that will improve the long-term health and stability of the multiemployer pension system.

Later, House Speaker John Boehner accused the White House of failing to offer a deal balancing tax hikes and spending cuts.

Speaker Boehner is looking for the president to do more on spending cuts.

Speaker John Boehner is telling House Republicans not to make Christmas break plans, because they might have to work through the holiday on a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

Where are the president's spending cuts? The longer the White House slow walks this process the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff.

As for House Speaker Boehner who he met with yesterday at the White House, he said the GOP offer remains the same, no rate hikes.

Not only we're putting the $800 billion on the table but we're going to aim it at the rich. And the rich are the ones who are going to pay.

I would say we're nowhere. Period.

We need to get serious.