Political Quotes

“Another interesting thing, we visited on Saturday afternoon down there the folks that served on board the USS Mellon, the Coast Guard cutter that had a successful pickup on the high seas of some 5,000 pounds of marijuana. Each bale is $88,000. Just picture how that can influence people, how that can influence basic infrastructure in terms of the money value, how that can destroy economies, how that can destroy countries, how that can destroy people. What it is doing to us is just a quiet cancer day by day. The amount of drugs that are coming up through Puerto Rico, because once it gets into Puerto Rico, it is just like a State, it goes straight into the United States. The amount of drugs coming out of Colombia and going right into Mexico, being dropped off in the middle of Mexico and then just transported across the border into the United States. Yes, demand is important. Here is yesterday's Washington Post: U.S. Falling Far Short in Drug War, Global Criminal Groups Expand Production, Markets. The United States and other developed countries are falling further behind in the war on drugs as criminal organizations in Latin America and Asia have increased production and become more sophisticated in distributing cocaine and heroin, according to recent U.S. intelligence reports. We have got to wake up. If we don't we are going to be in serious trouble.”