Political Quotes

“Let me just add a couple of things to your very important comments. Our third and fourth drug hearings which were held on June 27 and June 28 had testimony from the head of the DEA, head of U.S. Customs, head of the Coast Guard, President Clinton's interdiction coordinator and GAO investigators who revealed they have just completed, and this is GAO, a major study of the Clinton administration's drug strategy in source countries. Here is what we learned: The head of the DEA, Administrator Constantine, admitted that our exploding drug use in this country which was falling until 3 years ago and the international drug cartels should be seen as the No. 1 national security threat. He ranked it above ballistic missiles for the impact on our Nation. Yet he admitted that it is not given that ranking by his own administration's National Security Council. He spoke from the heart and called this threat a time bomb. What he is saying is that if you put crime and drugs together, the National Security Council should look at this threat as being the No. 1 issue facing our country. The President's interdiction coordinator, Admiral Kramek, admitted that his office which is supposed to coordinate the Nation's whole drug interdiction effort has just 6 people and that the whole interdiction effort has been cut for 3 straight years. We got admissions from DEA, the President's interdiction coordinator and the head of U.S. Customs that Clinton's drug strategy is not fulfilling expectations.”