Political Quotes

“One thing that I feel very positive about as a result of our trip and something that I intend to talk about a lot, on many occasions during my visits to schools, is the relationship between young American men and women being put in harm's way, many miles from home, and the demand for illegal substances in this country. I really trotted this out recently at a high school in my district. I talked to the kids. Their eyes became wider when I said, you know, there's a relationship between a demand for cocaine at this school in Baltimore County, MD and deaths of American DEA agents in South America. There was a disconnect there. They never really thought about that relationship. But in our unending campaign to strike a responsive chord with the youth of this country in trying to get this message across, I think we have to be innovative. One way certainly is to draw that direct parallel, that direct line, between the demand for drugs in this country, which some people just laugh off, saying we cannot win the war, and the fact that we put DEA agents, FBI agents, CIA agents and Coast Guard personnel and Navy personnel and all these fine young men and women that we met in the course of our trip in harm's way.”