Political Quotes

“I want to make the case on behalf of Senator McCain and myself, and Senators Domenici, Cochran, Daschle, Kerrey, Warner, Inouye, Hutchison, and others who have supported this amendment, the cosponsors of the amendment. We have had 11 years. We didn't come up with this overnight. We have had 11 years. We have now 12.8 million people using illegal drugs in this country; 1.5 million cocaine addicts; 600,000 heroin addicts. What do we want to do, wait another year, another 2 years? Do you want that number to be 13 million drug addicts in the country? How about a million heroin addicts? When do we stop? The present system isn't working. We have decertified about 7 countries over the last several years. If anything, we have had less cooperation--Afghanistan, Burma, Iran, Syria, Colombia--and what do we get back from it? If this is working so well, are these countries cooperating today? No, we are not getting cooperation. All we are getting is a deluge of drugs pouring into the country.”