John Boehner: “Most of the policy issues have been dealt with, and the big fight is over the spending.”

The modern Republican Party is filled with, as John Boehner put it, people who spend more time tearing things apart than actually building anything.

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.

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

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.