Political Quotes

“We have all seen the numbers in recent surveys, the percentage of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 who admit to using drugs within the last month. That increase has gone from 5.3 percent in 1992 to 10.9 percent in 1995. The statistics from these surveys show that the use of LSD and hallucinogens is up anywhere from 183 percent, cocaine up 166 percent, marijuana use up 144 percent. But there are other factors that give us a better idea of the pervasiveness and the impact that drugs are having in our country. When the Senator from Texas tells about the Texas border and other places where ranchers are threatened by drug lords--and we have heard the same thing from the Senator from New Mexico, talking about how the drug efforts are really moving a foreign, hostile nation into our borders--we ought to be seriously concerned; the problems are very acute in the border areas. There are some other statistics that are very alarming away from the borders, in the heartland of the United States.”