Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a couple of Olympic athletes from my district on the central coast of California. Brita Sigourney and Nick Cunningham will be representing Team USA at the Olympics in South Korea. Brita attended the same schools I went to, Carmel High and UC Davis. She is a freestyle skier, and she is the first woman to land a 1080 in competition at the halfpipe run, and she is one of the top female freestyle skiers in the world. Nick is a bobsledder. He also went to one of the schools I went to: Monterey Peninsula College. He is a sergeant in the Army National Guard and a member of the Army's World Class Athlete Program. Starting this Friday, Brita and Nick will compete on the world stage under the stars and stripes of our flag. As we know, the Olympics is an event where many different people from different places come together and compete with one another for the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, and in doing so, they provide their opponents with dignity and respect. Hopefully we here in Washington will not only watch the Olympics, but we will learn from Olympians like Brita and Nick, because it is our hometown athletes who not only understand what it takes to win, they know what it takes to represent the best team at the Olympics and the best country in the world. ____________________”