And I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work through millions in direct grants to big-city mayors, whose support I'll need to convince urban blacks to vote for me despite my positions on affirmative action, racist sentencing standards, and warrantless police entry of public housing. Crime has dropped for four years in a row thanks largely to a demographic drop in the number of young adults, but I'll take the credit again. So it is very painful to me that drug use among young people is up especially when they're on my own staff. Drugs nearly killed my brother before I nailed him to save my career,although I pardoned his coke dealer and expunged his criminal record. I learned something in that long nightmare.
Drugs are deadly.
Drugs are wrong. Just Don't Inhale. The FDA has adopted measures to reduce sales of cigarettes to children which won't affect shipments to the third world, where the tobacco guys make their serious money anyway. The Vice President spoke so movingly of it last night even though the Gore fortune comes largely from tobacco, which Al himself grew up planting, harvesting, and rolling with his own two hands. We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute.