Story highlights House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday he will not seek the White House in the future 
 
 Ryan was often talked about as a possible contender, but he said 2016 would have been the cycle for him to run 
 
 Washington (CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan is ruling out a future presidential bid, saying 2016 would have been the year for him to have sought the Oval Office. 
 
 "If I really wanted to be president, I would have run in this cycle for the presidency. I had the chance and opportunity to do so and I chose not to do that. I'm perfectly happy and content with this decision," Ryan told CNN's Dana Bash on Friday. The full interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." 
 
 Ryan was elected speaker Thursday, capping a tumultuous month for House Republicans which began when former Speaker John Boehner announced he was retiring from the House amid divisions in the Republican caucus. 
 
 Boehner, for whom Ryan volunteered during his first run for Congress in 1990, offered his own thoughts on Ryan's future in an interview with Bash just before he left the House. 
 
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 WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan said in a series of televised interviews on Sunday that he would not work with the Obama administration on changing immigration policy, effectively pushing off the issue to at least 2017. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 “Look, I think it would be a ridiculous notion to try and work on an issue like this with a president we simply cannot trust on this issue,” Mr. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, said in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “He tried to go it alone, circumventing the legislative process with his executive orders, so that is not in the cards.” 
 
 The message from Mr. Ryan, who was elected speaker on Thursday, signaled an antagonism toward the White House that both echoed his predecessor, John A. Boehner, and is likely to appeal to the party conservatives who forced Mr. Boehner’s resignation. 
 
 Mr. Ryan taped five Sunday morning news shows, in which he laid out his agenda for unifying his party and his approach to relationships with congressional colleagues, Mr. Obama and Republican presidential candidates. 
 
 When asked to comment on the statements about immigration, a White House spokesman referred to a news briefing Friday by Josh Earnest, the press secretary, who described the speaker’s stance as “a source of deep disappointment.” 
 
 Mr. Ryan said that if the Republicans were to be a successful opposition party between now and the presidential election, they would need to become an aggressive “proposition party,” laying out a clear policy vision with alternatives to Democrats, like plans for overhauling the tax code and replacing the Affordable Care Act. 
 
 “We have been too timid for too long around here,” Mr. Ryan said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We have been bold on tactics but not on policy, not on an agenda. We have to show people what our alternatives are, and that is the kind of leadership I think people are hungry for here.” 
 
 Such proactive agenda-setting, Mr. Ryan added, will help avert the kind of brinkmanship over spending that was common under Mr. Boehner’s leadership. It also requires that congressional leaders be “honest with people up front about what it is you can and cannot achieve,” Mr. Ryan said in response to a question on CNN’s “State of the Union” about defunding Planned Parenthood. 
 
 Mr. Ryan repeatedly made it clear that he would take an approach different from that of Mr. Boehner, whose almost five-year tenure as speaker was rife with Republican Party infighting. In a nod to the conservatives who have demanded that power in the House be decentralized, Mr. Ryan said the speaker’s job was to facilitate consensus, not to be “dictator of the House.” 
 
 “I don’t think leadership should be trying to, you know, covet power and write legislation,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think I want to have a more participatory process, which is really what the founders envisioned the House to look like. And that is something that so many of us, myself included, have been concerned about the way this place has been run.” 
 
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 Mr. Ryan, the Republican Party’s 2012 vice-presidential nominee, said he would remain neutral in the Republican presidential nomination race. The Republican presidential aspirants, he added, have offered a model for the kind of policy alternatives he hopes to see in the House. 
 
 “I looked at that stage and said every one of these people would be a far better president than Hillary Clinton,” he said on ABC. 
 
 Mr. Ryan briefly addressed his personal qualms with taking the speaker’s job, which he said he had never wanted. His thinking underwent “a metamorphosis over a few weeks,” Mr. Ryan said, as he realized the role he could play in “wiping the slate clean” in the House and the way it conducts business. 
 
 As he made clear when he was being courted to accept the position, Mr. Ryan said that as speaker he would continue commuting every week between Washington and his home in Janesville, Wis., where his wife and three young children live. In Washington, he will continue to sleep in his old office in the House, rather than the speaker’s suite, which members of his staff were trying to rid of the odor from Mr. Boehner’s cigarettes. 
 
 Asked by “Fox News Sunday” how long he expected his honeymoon as speaker to last, Mr. Ryan offered a quick joke. 
 
 “About 35 minutes,” he said.
– Our new speaker of the House is a little short in the "house" department—he's among the nation's representatives who opt to sleep in their offices instead of paying DC rent—and Paul Ryan says that won't change with his new gig, reports Roll Call. "I live in Janesville, Wisconsin. I commute back and forth every week. I just work here. I don’t live here," he said, per Politico. "I get up very early in the morning. I work out. I work until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed, and I do the same thing the next day. It actually makes me more efficient. I can actually get more work done by sleeping on a cot in my office, and I’m going to keep doing it." Ryan spoke Sunday with all five major talk shows. Highlights: On why he won't address immigration reform: "I think it would be a ridiculous notion to try and work on an issue like this with a president we simply cannot trust on this issue," Ryan said, per the New York Times. "He tried to go it alone, circumventing the legislative process with his executive orders, so that is not in the cards." On defunding Planned Parenthood: "I don't think Planned Parenthood should get a red cent from the taxpayer. But I believe we need to do our oversight," he said, via Real Clear Politics. "By not controlling the process ... I don't know what the outcome is going to be." About that office. It smells like John Boehner's cigarettes: "We’ve been talking about that, they have these ozone machines, apparently, that you can [use to] detoxify the environment. But I’m going to have to work on the carpeting in here. You know when you ever go to a hotel room or get a rental car that has been smoked in? That’s what this smells like." On giving up White House aspirations: "If I really wanted to be president, I would have run in this cycle for the presidency," he tells CNN. "I had the chance and opportunity to do so and I chose not to do that. I'm perfectly happy and content with this decision."