Ron Johnson

I truly believe we share the same goal.

So, we have one form of heroin that is produced artificially that is, basically, identical to heroin.

My point is, why has one been legal--or a class of them legal--and another one illegal?

The 'War on Drugs' has just served this country so poorly.

We are almost 25 percent of the world's incarcerated populations.

Drug prohibition has been a monumental disaster.

No, because of the terrible signal it would send to kids your age.

We are spending $25 billion a year to interdict the supply of drugs and you want an indication--you want a metric? Dropping from over $3,000 per gram to $100 per gram----

I could not addict my customers to plastic by giving them a free sample. You can addict a child to drugs.

We need to put that same type of committed, long-term effort into doing everything we can to reduce our insatiable demand for drugs

We are only interdicting between 5 and 10 percent of the illegal drugs coming into this country. We are not winning this war.

The primary root cause of our unsecure border is America's insatiable demand for drugs

The risk is going to continue to grow.

I think your third point was leave the United States more vulnerable to the machinations of government.

But it is definitely true not only is our willingness reduced, but our capacity, our capability, has been reduced, correct?

Ronald Reagan I think taught us that you achieve peace through strength.

I think they are inextricably linked.

I am hoping we can really get a good result here.

I think I can trust some capable members here for figuring out how this thing is going to all wrap up.

OK, here is the bill. Now we have to see you do it.

I think that makes a lot of sense, and it is why I have joined our Chairman in cosponsoring two pieces of legislation.

I strongly support Secretary Johnson's 'Unity of Effort Initiative,' which seeks to create more cohesion and efficiency across the Department.

I am very concerned that ICE's management is seeking out those individuals in order to retaliate, or otherwise punish them, for providing information to Congress.

This is an important hearing. We have been working on this project for about a year in a bicameral, and I think, a very bipartisan way.

I think we should work together on some piece of legislation to facilitate using the private sector skills.