"Let me suggest to you that it is my understanding under Title 21 that you have the authority to initiate a request to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do a study to look into marijuana and Schedule 1."
"I appreciate what you have done, and some of the statements you have made have been most forward moving."
"In my humble opinion, and I think the majority of the people in this country, there is no way that marijuana should be Schedule 1 because it is not in the same class as heroin and LSD as it in the Cod..."
"Schedule 1 says you cannot do any research on it. Why will you not ask the Secretary under Title 21, Chapter 13, to initiate that program to get marijuana out of Schedule 1? It is obviously not Schedu..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Because the basic respect for the law is so important and what we do as legislators, Congress people is pass laws."
"Therefore, it needs to be rectified. Because the foundation of our society rests upon the law."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do thank you for putting this together."
"I don't think the President has been schizophrenic. The President hasn't gone nearly as far as I would like to see him go on this issue because it is a freedom issue."
"I would submit, with all due respect to my fellows on the other side, that schizophrenia... could be described as a party that talks about saving money all the time and being concerned with deficits....."
"I think it is schizophrenia when you offer State issues and preemption and priorities and giving power back to the States, but not when it comes to them having passing laws concerning marijuana."