John Boehner: “Perhaps his greatest gift to the body was the simplest one, and that was his fundamental sense of decency.”

I'd rather set myself on fire than to run for office again.

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.

I want to work with you. But I`m just stuck.

I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder.