Political Quotes

“I want to say a word to the dads, the fathers out there who, like me, have daughters in college or in school at some level. In the late 1970s a mandate law, an unfunded mandate called Title IX, came into effect, and probably every Member of this Congress at that time heard from their colleges saying, ``Don't do it,'' their universities saying, ``It will cost too much.'' I heard from Montanans, particularly the male jocks, saying ``This is a terrible idea. Don't do it'', but we did it. Today my daughters are on the playing fields in organized sports in the colleges of Montana, and our daughters are playing basketball, and our daughters are playing tennis, and our schools have to spend the kind of money on our daughters, at least to some degree, that they have to spend on our sons. I like the fact that my daughter plays basketball. I like the fact that that was a mandate from the Federal Government, and no, I do not believe that the taxpayers of this country should be subsidizing the University of Montana just so my kid can play basketball. I think that is up to the taxpayers of the University of Montana.”