Political Quotes

“This crime issue is so important. I share the Senator's view. I just add, this question of violent juvenile crime is especially important. Again, you see Senators of both parties who have done excellent work on this, Senators Hatch and Thompson--I have watched Senator Biden--all of whom have been very helpful to me and my staff in my early days as a Senator. I think they can help us put together a package dealing with violent juvenile crime. In a lot of communities--the adult crime rate is still too high but has sort of leveled off--but the rate of violent juvenile crime has just gone through the stratosphere. In fact, the Justice Department had a study recently that showed, particularly between 3 and 7 o'clock, 3 in the afternoon and 7 in the evening, when you have these at-risk kids, that is when you really have a great portion of the violent crime in America. There is nothing partisan about tackling violent juvenile crime.”