Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, as was pointed out in the recent dialogue with the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes), there is a war on drugs going on, and our Nation is losing. Mr. Chairman, the point that would I like to make with this amendment and the law that I would like to change with this amendment would allow our Department of Defense to test all of its employees for drugs and, in the future, tell future hires that, as a requirement of working for the Department of Defense, that they will submit to random drug testing. In February, I went to Colombia, went to places like Ibague, went to places likes San Jose, where American pilots are flying crop dusters and being shot at by Colombian guerillas and Colombian narco-traffickers. We have American A-teams on the ground in Colombia training the Colombian Lance Arrows, their word for Ranger. We have American Seals training their navy. We have Americans in Iquitos, Peru, right across the Amazon River, training their riverine operations. It is a real war. It is a real war with real casualties. The week after I left Colombia, the Lance Arrows that I had the privilege of visiting went out, 125 of them. Eighteen of them returned. The remainder were either killed or captured.”