War Against Drugs Quotes

#1. If the war against drugs is lost, then so are the wars against theft, speeding, incest, fraud, rape, murder, arson, and illegal parking. Few, if any, such wars are winnable. So let us all do anything we choose.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.'
You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

Bill Hicks

#3. I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

Bill Hicks

#4. So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Alexander Cockburn

#5. A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

Chris Prentiss

#7. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Holly Near

#9. So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.

Bill Hicks

#11. What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

David Simon

#12. "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."

John Hickenlooper

#13. I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.

Ronald Reagan

#14. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

#15. If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

Bill Hicks

#16. These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

Bob Filner

#17. People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.

Craig Ferguson

#18. After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.

Tia Mowry

#19. Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

Brian Posehn

#20. I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

James Caan

#21. If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.

Robert De Castella

#22. In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Jesse Ventura

#23. The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

Gore Vidal

#24. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

#25. Actors and burglars work better at night.

Cedric Hardwicke