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and he caulk off into the distance -- walks off into the distance as they sing "you'll never walk alope" so i tell my wife, and, of course, she starts crying. [laughter] the point is this: for those of us who are responsible, for those of us who care about children, have children, care about the future be, recognize our own mortality, this is not a fight we can afford to lose. there is something beyond us. the left, they're a bunch of adolescents. they don't care about the next generation. in fact, they're willing to bankrupt the next generation so they can have a good old time right now. they're willing to destroy the greatest civilization in the history of man kind. specifically to satiate their own head nistic needs. that's not what we're about. and so in a way my daughter has, obviously, taken the pizazz out of me, but she has also changed, she's deepened what i already believed from something that was an ideology into a creed and a way of life. and for all of us who live it, it is a way of life. that way of life is under attack, and the only way to destroy the folks who are attempt

believe me, they wouldn't give me promotions at hopkins based on this book alope. it has to be doing peer-review publications, scientific papers. just last week we had a big article featuring our laboratory, "nature" magazine. it has to be based on grants that we get from the government, peer-review grantings. i'm only one of a handful of brain surgeons in the united states that has funding from the national institutes of health to study brain cancer. so that's how you get promoted, and that's how i said this is what i'm going to do first before i release that story. c-span: i'm not absolutely sure of this, but i think that johns hopkins has a $1.6 billion grant that they get grants from the government and everywhere. they are number one hospital by u.s. news "u.s. news & world report" for how many years? >> guest: 20 years. c-span: what do they do with all that hundred? [laughter] >> guest: you've got to come this and see. it's all going back to research. i think that's what makes this place such an incredibly special place, that we're constantly striving to make

in 2010 alope, even in the face of budget shortfalls, states spent an estimated $3.6 billion enforcing marijuana possession laws, a total that represents a 38% increase compared to the amount spent earlier and this in a time of extreme budget constraints at the state and local level. this drastic increase in enforcement costs raises the important question over how effective we are prioritizing limited law enforcement resources. it's troubling that despite four decades of federal everetts to enforce -- efforts to enforce the criminalization of manufacturing, distribution of marijuana, the united nations drug world drug report found that while global cannabis consumption stays stable, marijuana use is actually increasing here in the united states. the federal government's ineffectiveness at significantly reducing marijuana becomes even starker when we contrast our nation's rising marijuana use and trades with the results of our country's anti-tobacco campaign which has actually been pretty successful. without resorting to a policy of prohibition or criminalization, our country has brough

leave him alope. >> host: okay. maria, thank you very much for the call. the washington post this morning and chris with "the fix" writing the nine ways mitt romney has told us he won't run for president translated into three-word mitt poems. and "the washington post" says, quote: lection it didn't see likely the republicans would be clamoring for romney to run for president again. we want to get to your calls and comments on whether or not you think mitt romney should run. again, the phone lines are open at 202-585-3880. republicans only for the first 45 minutes. for those out west, republicans dial 202-585-3881. harry is next from sarasota, florida. how do you answer the question, harry? >> caller: well, i think mitt romney should run for president again because i don't think america needs another democrat in the white house. because what the democrats are doing in the white house is, frankly, is terrible. and i think mitt romney would do a better job than what most democrats would be doing. >> host: do you think the republican party would embrace him ag