Without Tom DeLay, a lot of this wouldn't have been possible for Roy. They're good friends. They're good colleagues. Roy has learned a lot.

You always hear criticism that when wholesale prices come down there always seems to be a delay when the retailer follows suit.

We formalized the process of reaching out to them. You could talk to Tom or Tom's people, or Roy or Roy's people. It was all the same.

We put together a budget for what we thought we would raise and spend on the convention and whatever was left over we were going to use to support candidates.

There is probably no other member of the House that appears at as many events as Roy.

And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.