Political Quotes

“earlier today we voted to increase the effort on the war on drugs by about $2 billion. We have in different States, including my home State of Mississippi, some of the toughest laws on Earth with regard to drug dealers, a law that with others I helped pass in Mississippi, which says that if one sells 2 ounces of cocaine, 2 ounces of heroin, 100 pills or 10 pounds of marijuana over the course of a year, if one is caught and convicted, one will spend the rest of one's life in prison. I have flown counterdrug missions with the Colombian National Police, the helicopters that go out and fly cover for the crop dusters. We have SEALs and special forces on the ground in Central America right now training their people in counternarcotics operations. We have a riverine school in Iquitos, Peru, using our Marines and our SEALs to train them in drug interdiction. We have had submarines off the coast, P-3s, E-3s, AWACS, just about everything in the American inventory involved in the war against drugs, and it is not working. The reason it is not working is that we have this incredible double standard in America where we say, it is bad to sell drugs, but somehow it is all right to use them. It is not all right to use them. I happened to enlist in the Coast Guard about the time that our armed forces hit rock bottom as far as drug usage. It was fairly common every night for our barracks to smell like the Marrakesh Express.”