Political Quotes

“Of marijuana. And I happen to know that the value of those drugs coming across our southern border are $65 billion worth of illegal drugs. That is with a B. To try to get one's mind around $65 billion; what is that? Well, for example, PEMEX, Mexican nationalized oil company, produces about $28 billion worth of oil pumped out of Mexico and along the Gulf; $28 billion. This is about 2 rac{1}{2} times the value of all the illegal drugs coming into the United States. The 250,000 criminal illegal aliens that are incarcerated in the United States amounts to 27 percent of the criminal population, the inmate population in our Federal penitentiaries, and there is a report that came out in April of 2005 that shows that we are funding about one out of every four prisoners that apply. And you do the math on that, and it comes out to about 25 percent of our State and local prisons are criminal inmates there as well. So when I look at what happens in places like Israel, where they have built a fence that has been almost 100 percent effective, you can't make the argument, I don't believe, that it's not effective when you put up a barrier to keep people out.”