Political Quotes

“I think one of the issues we face is that not all Americans, and especially in rural America, are willing to admit to the problem. I think everybody knows there is drug usage in our rural schools. I think everybody knows there is some drugs in our small towns. But I don't think they are willing to quite accept the immenseness of it, the gravity of it, how much of it is really going on there. We really have a population across America of people raised in the sixties, and some of those people have never stopped using drugs. So here we have families raising children where drug use has never ceased since the sixties. They have continued to use some form of illegal drugs because they are hooked, and they have not admitted that it is a problem in their lives. But it is. Last year, I visited a high school close to home, and was concerned about some information I had received about the availability of drugs within the block of the school, about the availability of drugs in the junior high school, and so when I made that visit, I questioned do you bring in dog teams, do you check lockers, do you really make sure that drugs are not kept here? I was told in Pennsylvania, you cannot do that. It is different State by State.”