"For too many years, unjustified disparate treatment of crack and powder cocaine has had a racially disproportionate and unjust impact upon on poor people and minority communities."
"the 100-1 unequal treatment is not justified. Our laws should reflect the evidence of harm to society."
"That basically describes what has happened with the arrest and convictions of these young Black men for the most part."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I would like to begin by thanking you and Speaker Pelosi for your leadership in this area."
"Thank you very much, Chairman Frank, for convening today's hearing on the Section 8 Voucher Reform Act."
"There is a section of Los Angeles County where the Section 8 residents are constantly singled out by law enforcement."
"I am thinking of holding a hearing in that area in order to go ahead and start to address these problems."
"They never delved into why and how all of these tons of cocaine was coming into first Los Angeles, cooked into crack cocaine and spread out across this country."
"My problem with the way this has been approached is this. We know that tons of cocaine was coming out of Nicaragua during the time of the confrontation between the Sandinistas and the Contras."
"We also know that drug dealers such as Danilo Blandon, who brought cocaine into Los Angeles that was cooked into crack by Ricky Ross, who is getting out of prison--just got out of prison now, who told..."
"I cannot reconcile that we require judges to be qualified."