Mark Foley Quotes
It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.
A few years after making this statement the congressman had to resign in disgrace and face criminal charges when he had been sending salacious e-mail to young boys who were pages in the Congress.
Mark Foley, U. S. Congressman (Republican, FL), Comment About President William Clinton
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Many politicians exhibit this syndrome. For many elected officials and party stalwarts, the position requires attention for almost every waking minute.
In order to convince the States to outlaw weed, Anslinger started a campaign to associate marijuana with insanity, murder, violence, sex and sex crimes. This type of statement made by otherwise respectable government officials has developed a view on the part of many Americans that the Government lies about marijuana. See {617560}, {593333}, and {593334}.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
The congressman had been addicted to alcohol, illicit and prescription drugs. Only in the latter part of the 20th century did we learn that addiction was a diseases—a brain disorder.
The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.
Ford and his wife had become very sophisticated regarding addiction and denial as a result of her problems with drugs and alcohol. Although there are many who agreed with Ford, Clinton had never discussed it in those terms. Ford had privately told Clinton that if he would seek psychological help for his problem, Ford would be a character witness for him at his impeachment trial.
Mark Adam Foley is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida as a member of the Republican Party, before resigning due to revelations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenaged boys who had served as congressional pages in what came to be known as the Mark Foley scandal.
