Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 22, 1976
We've got to move ahead even more rapidly and more effectively than we have in the past in trying to do something affirmatively about this problem of drugs.
Said by
Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Exchange at a Meeting With Peter Bensinger, Drug Enforcement Administrator, on Drug Abuse

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