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.

On Thursday in Memphis at 10 o'clock, I will be holding the first of a series of health forums on issues of importance to the people of the Ninth District. The one on Thursday will be on the racial difference in breast cancer morbidity. A…

Maybe the reason that so many more people are smoking marijuana now is because they are not listening, and maybe they are doing the other drugs, too. But it also shows that the drug war has been a failure.

Kids shouldn't use it. Kids shouldn't use it ever. And at age 18 people shouldn't be arrested for it.

But the fact is we need to put our priorities toward heroin and meth.

Maybe marijuana doesn't kill you; heroin does and meth does. They are different.

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... but not being concerned and saving…

The truth is the drug war failed. Your direction on marijuana is a failure.

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.

People don't smoke marijuana and beat up their wives and girlfriends.