Political Quotes

“I think quite clearly you need to give the Food and Drug Administration, which deals with other kinds of harmful substances, lethal substances, the authority to do what it needs to do with reference to nicotine because it is such a deadly drug. It is responsible for so many lost lives. But I think about the personal example you gave, and I believe that tomorrow morning there will be so many people around America taking car pools, as I used to do when my daughters were a little younger, and you go by at any high school in America almost, and at too many middle schools, the smoking corner. And you see bright young people with tremendous potential out there and realize that what we are talking about here in Washington, when we talk about hundreds of thousands or millions of people, they are Jane and Tom and Sally and Bill that are down there on the corner tomorrow when you see them on the way to taking the kids to school, or passing by a school on the way to work. It is their future that is at stake here. The thought that tomorrow, and the day after that, and every day this year 3,000 young, bright people with so much potential will become addicted each day to nicotine, and that all of us working collectively here could do something about it, that is why we are here tonight talking.”