Former House Speaker John Boehner said everyone, regardless of their politics, should be grateful for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s leadership.

“Washington in recent years has been described as a place that lurches from crisis to crisis. One person has done more to defuse these crises time and again than any other individual in American government,” Boehner wrote in a profile of McConnell, who was selected as one of Time’s most influential people of 2019.