Political Quotes

“In having represented a neighboring district to John Boehner's for 19 of the last 21 years, I have come to know John pretty well. I consider him not just a colleague and the leader of the House, but a friend. It is not just our time in Congress in representing neighboring districts that we share. We have had a lot in common throughout our lives, and we have often talked about those similarities. We have both lived in the Cincinnati area our entire lives. We were born and grew up in Reading, a small, blue-collar neighborhood just to the north of the city of Cincinnati, although my family moved to Cincinnati's west side when I was 6 years old. We were both second-born children, although I am the second of 4 and John is the second of 12 children. We were both raised--and still are-- Catholic. So I know just how important having Pope Francis speak to a joint session of Congress was for Speaker John Boehner. We both played football in rival Catholic high schools in the GCL, the Greater Cincinnati League, which is an incredibly competitive league in a football-crazy State: Ohio. We both played defense. In fact, we both had ties to former head coaches at Notre Dame. John played for Gerry Faust at Moeller High School, and I was recruited to William & Mary by Lou Holtz, both of whom, of course, became head coaches at Notre Dame. We both worked to put ourselves through school as janitors.…”