Political Quotes

“Madam President, what we heard is a lot of the same excuses that the Democrats have made for years about being soft on crime and their claims about mass incarceration or systemic racism or what have you. I would point out that almost no one--almost no one--is in Federal prison for mere drug possession. It is a myth that there are low-level, nonviolent offenders in prison because they are addicted to drugs. Where we are is at a 21-year low in the number of Federal inmates we have. Do you know where we are not at? A 21-year low in drug deaths-- the highest on record every single year, year after year. Almost twice as many have died as in the Vietnam war. Almost 24 times as many have died as in the entire Iraq war. Almost 35 times as many have died as on 9/11. Yet the Democrats repeatedly refuse to crack down on deceptive fentanyl dealers. As I have mentioned, I have also offered bills in the past that would permanently add fentanyl to the Controlled Substances Act scheduling. The Democrats refuse to do so. They will do it temporarily from time to time, but they want a trade. They want to get a trade for something. They want to either reduce sentences or let prisoners out. This is whether they are Democratic Senators or Democratic Governors in places like Illinois, in their eliminating the bail system, or whether they are Democratic mayors or Democratic prosecuting attorneys in places like Chicago. As a result, we have a crimewave and a drug epidemic all across America.…”