Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, we have a drug problem. As a State Senator of Mississippi, I am real proud of the fact that I helped pass the toughest drug law in America. In Mississippi, if you sell two ounces of cocaine, two ounces of heroin, 100 pills, 10 pounds of marijuana, in one sale or intent or a series of sales over the period of 1 year, you are caught and convicted, you spend the rest of your life in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. But it is not enough, because we have this disconnect in our country where we say, if you are a dealer, you are bad; if but if you use it, it is okay. I often wonder how many kids here on Capitol Hill use drugs. They work for our Nation. They should not. I would hope at some point during this Congress we will see to it that everyone who works for this Nation, as a requirement of working for this Nation, will subject themselves to drug tests. But I cannot do that on this bill. I can, however, require that we take a step in that direction and say if you are going to work for our Nation's Department of Defense, if you are committing your life to defending our Nation or working to support those people who defend our Nation, you are not going to use drugs. You are not going to take your Federal paycheck and break the law and use illegal drugs. That is what we are asking to do. I do not think there is any opposition to this.”