Jerry Nadler actually said...

"The war on drugs was a terrible mistake."

"Tyranny can result from putting people in jail, not from letting people out of jail."

"If you have a President who uses the pardon power to pardon his own confederates in crimes, to pardon all of his friends, to pardon anybody who may have committed a crime in his behalf so that he can ..."

"The Crime Bill of 1994, which is a terrible mistake, all of which led to mass incarceration."