Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, you also pointed out something that I think is important when you talked about how we need testing and how we need that as a deterrent. Traditionally, what we have done with all of our drug enforcement that goes clear back to the heroin days is that we see it from two different ways. One of them is interdiction, and interdiction, you go out on the highway, pull a car over, check to see what they are hauling around, search somebody. When you arrest them, yeah, if they have drugs on them, you take them away from them. You prosecute them. We try to lock some people up in jail. That is the interdiction part of this. The other side of that is the rehabilitation part, the drug treatment part. Those two things are on opposite wings of the entire problem. I want to say to the interdiction portion of this, yes, it is important; yes, we need to be aggressive. That is really part of what we are doing. We are trying to take the components of meth out of the hands of the people that make it for one thing and remove some of those components from even overseas on the way that it is funneled through this distribution system that we have, make it harder to access. That is interdiction. What interdiction does, by definition, when you remove a product, the more successful you are with the interdiction, the higher prices are going to go because this law of supply and demand manifests itself.…”