Political Quotes

“Let me tell you what we are dealing with, I say to the Senator from Illinois and the Presiding Officer, my colleague from West Virginia. We face it every day. I am going to read a letter here from another family. I do it once a week because it puts a real family with it. But we have such a situation that we now have people who, because of the hard financial time some States are hitting, are saying: Why don't you just legalize marijuana? Just legalize it, they are telling me. That will help all your problems with all the taxes you will receive. I can tell my colleagues that 99 percent of the addicts I talk to, when I ask them how they got started--how did you go down this path of destroying your life--they say: It started with recreational marijuana. I have people coming to me and saying: You are a public leader. You are in the political arena. Don't you think we need this revenue? I know we need revenue, but I don't think we need it by fostering more addicts. If an addict is telling me not to do it, and then I have other people saying the opposite, I am not going to do it. I can't do it in all good conscience. So this is what we are facing right now. If they think of the revenue from narcotics--the revenue from these destroying drugs we have--and if the doctors don't understand it, here is the problem, as I have just said.…”