Political Quotes

“I will be expanding on this legislation this next week with a revision, including some of the provisions that have been incorporated in the Senate Committee on Commerce, but recognizing that when the tobacco companies go abroad to try to pay the penalties that they have incurred here at home, that it is just wrong for us as Americans to be projecting forth the idea that there is something American about smoking. We see some of these billboards up in foreign countries suggesting that the western, democratic thing to do is to smoke. We see at schools, at kiosks, at clubs, we see, as the gentleman and I have been in some parts of the world, young people who look like they are barely old enough to go to elementary school passing out free cigarettes on the streets; using cigarette logos on toys, on toy cars in Buenos Aires; on arcade games in the Philippines; Marlboro labels on various kinds of children's clothes. Those are the kinds of things that makes it pretty clear that they are targeting young people in these other countries, recognizing that many of the other countries do not even have the feeble limitations on tobacco that have existed in this country.”