Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for participating today and this remembering and celebrating. Mr. Speaker, in the times of my life I have had opportunity to reflect back on and think of as special times, there is one time in particular when I was a senior in high school. I grew up in Center County. I went to Penn State, I'm a proud Penn State alumni. I grew up in the shadow of the Nittany Lion and Joe Paterno. One of my most meaningful memories having played high school football was the day I got word that Coach Joe Paterno had asked for game films to look at me as a prospect for that great team. That was going well until he saw that as an offensive guard I was less than 200 pounds. But today, I still treasure that, that he looked at my performance and at least saw something there. Joe Paterno grew up in Brooklyn, the descendant of Albanian and Italian immigrants. He derived a toughness from that heritage, describing his father and Albania as a land of quiet, hardheaded people. His toughness was seasoned by a deep appreciation of the classics. Virgil, which he read in the original Latin, was a key source of inspiration for Paterno. He wrote, ``I'll never forget the majestic ring of the opening lines of `The Aeneid': `Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris,''' which he translated as ``Of arms and the man I sing.'' Paterno drew inspiration from Virgil's hero Aeneas.…”