Political Quotes

“I have a few comments on the second amendment. Alcohol remains the No. 1 drug problem among America's youth. Call it what it is. It is a drug, and its title is alcohol. It makes you drunk. It gives you a hangover the next morning. It causes people to drive recklessly and dangerously. It takes drivers' lives, and it takes other innocent people's lives. More and more we read about kids in school drinking alcohol. Statistics tell part of the sad story. About 4.6 million 14- to 17- year-olds in 1985 experienced negative consequences, such as arrests for involvement in an accident as a result of alcohol use. In 1988, more than 800 children up to the age of 14 and more than 8,000 15- to 24-year-olds died in alcohol-related highway accidents. Drivers 16 to 24 years of age represent approximately 17 percent of our licensed drivers but are involved in about 36 percent of all fatal, alcohol-related crashes. Nearly a third of high school seniors believe there is no great risk in having four or five drinks almost everyday. Their parents are bound to know that. Does anyone have the gall to stand up and say to me that as a parent they do not know that their children are drinking alcohol in school? In many instances, the parents are drinking, too. According to a nationwide survey 88 percent of the 790 high school coaches polled said that alcohol poses the greatest drug threat to high school athletes--alcohol.”