Political Quotes

“it is just such an anomaly from the gentleman from New Mexico. We heard on the block grant proposal that the States know best from everyone on that side, except on this issue. There is no provision here for any prevention or social welfare. Everything that must be built must be a correctional facility, confinement, nothing else. What I would say is that the vast majority of money will be used, indeed, for building maximum security facilities. But boot camps, the gentleman admitted that was all right, and other kinds of facilities that the States may have in mind, that we do know that would be all right as well, and the real issue here, the gentleman, in all due respect, is throwing up a smokescreen because he knows darn well there is going to be far more dollars to build prisons, hard core, barbed wire prisons under this bill than under the bill there, that he is hooking on a word that is no mandate, that is no anything. I have faith in my Governor, I do not know if the gentleman does in his, to use the money for the toughest type facilities possible.”