Political Quotes

“Basically, I truly believe it has been a business plan. That is being very cynical, if you will. We have a lawsuit going on in the southern part of West Virginia right now, in Boone County. There has been a judge there, Judge Thompson, who has been more active than anybody I have ever seen. He has a case before him now, and it basically involves four or five distributors. So you have pharmaceutical manufacturers that go to the distributors and basically spread it out to the pharmacies. They sent, in a very small period of time, over 200 million pills into a little part of our State. Now, you are telling me they didn't think they were oversupplying an area. Shouldn't somebody have raised a flag there? A moral conscience would say: There is no way they can consume this much. There is no way that a small rural area can consume this much narcotics. Something is wrong. Are you telling me that wasn't a business plan? So I am going to testify. They asked me. I said I am most happy to. I would love to be on the stand. I want them to question me about what has happened to our State. I am happy to be accountable for that because I want someone to look me in the eye and say: You didn't know we only have X amount of people. We only have 1.85 million people in the whole State. If you take 6 or 7 of these counties, you might be talking a couple hundred thousand people. You are sending 200 million pills to a couple hundred thousand people--to every man, woman, child, and baby?…”