More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
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You've got a number of members of Congress that are a bit frustrated, ... And I'd venture to guess it's probably on both sides. When you hear things like that, it is frustrating.
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If I'm a regular citizen and I'm looking at this and I've got the top flight people in the drug war and they're talking about they don't know how many planes have been shot down and forced down, I'd be a little concerned about what's going on.
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From my own life experience, I can attest that we have come a long way toward universal justice in this country, but we are not there yet.
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