Political Quotes

“I won't bore you with a lot of the same information. But he did set up--I think, John, you set up a perfect opportunity to dig into the dynasty a little bit when you went through every year. Remember, we have been in Congress every year that they won one of these FCS championships. Somebody reminded me of that yesterday. So we have given a lot of these speeches. I have made several in the House. Webster says that a dynasty is ``a succession of rulers of the same line of descent''--``a succession of rulers of the same line of descent.'' So when Senator Hoeven went through the names of those coaches in these last 14 years, they are in the line of descent. Craig Bohl, who went to Wyoming from NDSU, was the coach when NDSU became eligible for the FCS championship series. Just to put a little bit more meat on that, NDSU was a Division II-- NCAA Division II powerhouse for years, winning several national championships. They switched over to Division I and then became eligible. They didn't become eligible to even be in the tournament until 2008. So just imagine that. They were, basically, the junior varsity until 2008, when they became eligible for the playoffs. And in 2010, they got to the quarter finals. So we got these ten championships, but let's not forget, they--and one of the other times, one of the other 4 years that they didn't win the national championships, they were in the quarter finals. And 2 of the years of those 4, they were in the semifinals.…”