Brett Guthrie: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, my motto as the class of '87: Our Country We Strengthen, '87. It is…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, my motto as the class of '87: Our Country We Strengthen, '87. It is great to be here, and I want to start with a story. After I went through the Academy, graduated from West Point, spent time in the 101st Airborne Division, I decided to do something different with my life and went into business. I went to business school. I was in New England in business school. One time, I was driving back from a visit to Franklin Roosevelt's home on the Hudson River and was at a grocery store--Stew Leonard's, some people know from Danbury, Connecticut. I was standing outside with a kid, and a guy walks by, and he says: Well, Kentucky plates. What are you doing here in Connecticut? I said: Well, I am up here in graduate school, and we just went to Franklin Roosevelt's home. I just love the Hudson River. The Hudson Valley is just stunningly beautiful. The guy looked at me. He didn't know my background, didn't know who I was. So he said: Well, if you love the Hudson River, let me suggest you ought to spend a weekend at West Point. Let me suggest you go on Saturday, on a football Saturday, because you are not going to believe this, but they actually go to class on Saturday. I said: Are you kidding me? I mean, people actually go to a school that goes to class on Saturday? And he said: Yeah.…”