Political Quotes

“this past week I lost a true friend as well as my chief of staff, Alex Haught, who was killed in an automobile wreck in Nashville, Tennessee, the victim of a drunk driver. Perhaps the only thing more shocking than the suddenness of Alex's death was the information about the reckless individual who got behind the wheel of the 2-ton van that slammed into Alex's car. In the past 20 years he had been arrested over 70 times for crimes, including frequent public drunkenness, he had been convicted of driving while intoxicated, and his license had been revoked for over 8 years. Worse yet, he had gotten out of jail having served only 3 days of a 10-day sentence the day he killed Alex. This sickens me, Madam Speaker. Our system has broken down at every level, the local, State and Federal. We must revisit laws at every level of government to find ways to keep drunk drivers from destroying the lives of innocent people. In addition, we are going to have to look at some harsh measures that we have never looked at before.”