I don't see any question about where the moral high ground is here. The American people are eager to see where this science might lead.

I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to clock 4.6 (seconds) in the 40-yard dash, but what I can't accept is not starting. There has to be a starting block for this. We have to try.

I was ready to go. That's where I felt I belonged.

Now, having said that, 6% of our Nation regularly uses drugs, about 12 million people. They are seven out of ten employed. They're in the workplace. They're not under a bridge someplace. They're working for you and me. And they're terrible employees. They cause a third of all industrial accidents. They cause just a disproportionate amount of work absenteeism.

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.