Political Quotes

“given the poor record of the Clinton administration on drug enforcement it ought to be enough to simply note that this amendment is needed to bring funding up to the level requested by President Clinton. In an Investors Business Daily article recently, they began by saying: In the war on drugs, a bipartisan chorus of critics charges that President Clinton has been AWOL--absent without leadership. They quote Representative Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, who says: I have never, never, never seen a President who cares less about this issue. Representative Maxine Waters a Democrat from California says, ``There is no war on drugs.'' The article goes on to note that President Clinton cut the Drug Enforcement Agency by 227 agents; that he issued an Executive order reducing military interdiction efforts, including the elimination of 1,000 antidrug positions; that he shortened mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers; that he tried to slash the staff of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 80 percent, to only 25 people down from 146; and that in his 1995 budget he proposed cutting funds for the Customs Service, the DEA, Federal Bureau of Investigation, INS, and Coast Guard, all of which would result in fewer agents for drug interdiction.”