“People feel better when they take crack. People feel better when they take heroin. People feel better when they take meth.”
- White House drug czar John Walters, testifying yesterday at the Statehouse against a proposal to allow for the medicinal use of marijuana.
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“The word ‘pledge’ conjures up to me, you know, did you sign a pledge, did you promise to make a pledge, no tax pledge, those sorts of things.”
- Governor Rod Blagojevich, explaining to the Daily Herald’s editorial board why his repeated campaign promise to direct 51 percent of all new state revenue for education wasn’t a “pledge.”