Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the addiction epidemic is a national emergency that takes far too many lives and destroys too many families across the country. Unfortunately, my State, in some ways, leads the way. Four thousand Ohioans died from drug overdoses last year, more than any State in the United States. Four thousand families lost a mother, a father, a daughter, a son, a sister, or brother. We need to treat this epidemic like the public health emergency it is. We asked the President to proclaim it a public health emergency. He talked about it but still hasn't done it. That is the same reason I can't support Representative Tom Marino's nomination to head our country's drug control policy. First of all, fundamentally, I don't want an elected official, a politician, in that position. I want somebody from the treatment community. Congressman Marino is a nominee who, in his time in Congress, showed he was too cozy with the drug companies that helped create this epidemic. Earlier today, President Trump responded to reports about Congressman Marino and said he is looking at those reports very closely. I hope he does. I hope he withdraws that nomination. Make no mistake, Congressman Marino does not want to take us in the right direction in this fight. Today I was in Austintown--a township on the edge of Youngstown, in Mahoning County--talking to Officer Toth and Chief Gavalier at the Austintown Police Department about the opioid crisis.…”