It is the number one cause of accidental death--and it is destroying families and ripping communities apart.

I come at this as a recovering Governor, who focused a fair amount on trying to make sure that kids were born to parents who were ready to raise them.

Well, as we get close to the end of this hearing, I had high expectations that we were going to learn a lot--this was going to be valuable--more so than even I had hoped--so, we thank you very much for that.

That is what we call 'the Golden Rule.'

It is the violence, which we are complicit in by virtue of our addiction to these drugs that are trafficked through the Northern Triangle nations.

We have done that with tobacco quite successfully through the American Legacy Foundation's--which is now called the Truth Initiative's--'truth' campaign.

I am going to come back to 'find out what works, do more of that.'

the anti-marijuana fanatical message we had is not truthful.

It is one thing for us to pass authorizing legislation that would authorize programs to address this situation--opioids and opioid addiction.

80 percent of the crime is now related to opioid addiction.

There are no silver bullets--a lot of `silver BBs.'

You know what else worked? Convincing legislators--State legislators--to pass laws that mandated seat belt usage.

What is it about their lives that compels them to try to get here--to risk life and limb to make that 1,500-mile trip to the U.S.-Mexican border to get in.

Find out what works, do more of that.

One of the things we tried to do, I think, in Afghanistan, was to convince the farmers there--and help the farmers there to learn how to plant stuff other than poppies and to make money doing that.

If you just give someone one of these pharmaceuticals, which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and proven to be effective by research, the medication, alone, will not allow the person to actually transform their lives.

I apologize for being in and out.

let us go after the root causes.

The root cause is our addiction--our addictions to opioids and heroin--that sort of thing. And, we cannot ignore that.

What is the appropriate role for the Federal Government?

We need to reduce the size of the 'haystack.'

find out what works and do more of that.

If you continue to use cyber theft to steal our intellectual property, you know what we did to Iran with economic sanctions?

We do not want them untrained either. What they do is hazardous.

I have a lot of concerns about a budget proposal that does not adequately fund these grant programs.