Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this $29.5 billion appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for fiscal 1997, opens a new chapter in our effort to bring crime and drugs and our borders under control. It is a bill that puts the Congress on record as being willing to put the resources that are required to restore safety to our neighborhoods and make our citizens safe in their homes and on their streets. It is a bill that proposes funding to attack real life problems that exist today. Let me spell out what the problems that are confronting our Nation are in this arena, Mr. Chairman. One is drugs. The administration is sending a giant smokescreen to cover up its abject failure in the fight against drug use. All we hear is that cigarette smoking is so terrible and we have to wipe out this scourge on America's teenagers. They do not talk about the real problem with teenagers, and that is drugs, hard drugs. They are not just bad; they kill, and they cause people to kill others. Drugs: After a decade of decline since 1992, overall drug use is on the rise again...”