Political Quotes

“let me begin by quoting a sports hero from my hometown of Chicago: I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Mr. Speaker, the other day in the Committee on Rules, I, like Michael Jordan, took a shot and I missed. I filed an amendment that would have given additional money to our military for our fight to interdict drugs before they cross our borders and reach our neighborhoods. Mr. Speaker, we met the challenge of the cold war by providing the necessary resources to win that war. Now it is time we invested some of those same resources to fight and win the war on drugs, a war being waged in every neighborhood and every community in our country. Because, Mr. Speaker, in the final analysis, it is only with a full court press that we can ultimately turn failure into success.”