Political Quotes

“The facts and this is typically the case throughout this administration, just do not bear out the rhetoric. As the gentleman and my friend pointed out, the office of Drug Enforcement Administration reporting to the White House has in fact been cut by, I think the figure used was 84 percent. In fact, it has been decimated. But this President, knowing that he can use perception as opposed to substance, in his last State of the Union Speech appointed one of this Nation's heroes, General Barry McCaffrey, to head up the drug effort because he wanted to give the people the perception that he in fact is really doing something substantive. So he appoints a genuine hero in this country, whom all of us have the highest respect for and whom all of us want to help, while at the same time he is decimating the funding to allow the programs under the control of that individual and that agency in fact to go forward. Furthermore, perceptually, this administration has created a casual atmosphere about drug use.”