No Smoke-Filled Room

There is no mechanism.  There is no smoke-filled room.  If there is, I've never seen it, nor do I know anyone who has.  This is going to play out in the way that it will.

-- Michael O. Leavitt, former governor of Utah, on how the Republican Party was unable to come up with a united front to quash Donald J. Trump's campaign, New York Times, 28 February 2016