Political Quotes

“I will take off where Senator Hoeven left off. Listening to Senator Hoeven talk, I was thinking, what are we going to do--John and me--without Rob here to give us grief about our joint events that we do between Fargo, ND, and Moorhead? Several times, we have told Rob that we were heading out to do some esoteric event together, and he would give us a lot of grief. But then we would always send him pictures of the event to verify that this actually happened, and we had a lot of fun doing that. I was actually thinking as I heard our colleagues talk about how Rob always teaches. This is something John mentioned. He always passes on the torch. My favorite example of that--and you are going to remember this story, Rob--was when my daughter started college, and Senator Portman was going to speak at the college because his son was there, and he figured out that she was there, and he personally invited her to his talk at a residential college. She was a brandnew freshman. She went in there and sat down. She told me how nervous she was. Two hours later, she comes back and calls me. Rob had spoken in his typical way, in a very, very authoritative manner but in a very nice way--maybe a little critical of the then-President, President Obama, where he didn't agree with him. My daughter, a freshman in college, calls me and says: Mom, you know, Senator Portman said this. Why didn't President Obama do this? Why did this happen that way?…”