Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. I appreciate Chairman Chabot for yielding and for the Special Order tonight to honor Speaker Boehner. Mr. Speaker, this is a time of reflection when you kind of remember some of the first times you actually meet people and have met people, and this is one of the things I remember about John Boehner. I was in the Ohio General Assembly. What a couple of our colleagues and some of my fellow Members here tonight will remember very well are Senators White and Nein. We were walking across the street in front of the State House in Columbus, and I said, ``Hey, why don't you come over with us. We are going to have a meeting with John Boehner, who is in the U.S. House, and talk about some of the things that he is doing on education.'' That is the first time I met the Speaker, and I can still remember how impassioned he was at that time when you were talking about education and about the youth of America. The next time I really got to know the Speaker was during my special election back in 2007. After it was all over, I can still remember that my wife and I got a call from the Clerk's Office here. It was around 11 p.m. on election night. They said, ``We need to know when you are going to come down and get sworn in.'' I said, ``I need to talk to my wife about that.'' I said, ``Don't we need to worry about the Secretary of State?'' ``Oh, no.…”