My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. – John Boehner
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves… when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. – John Boehner
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they dont want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. – John Boehner
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. – John Boehner
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,