Drugs Quotes

"While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do"

Brion James, Actor

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future"

Bob Riley, Politician

"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died"

Brion James, Actor

"For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are"

Barry Mann, Musician

"I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever"

Elton John, Musician

"I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs"

Elton John, Musician

"Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world"

Kelli White, Athlete

"But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal"

Ted Demme, Director

"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"The war on drugs is a war against the communities"

Holly Near, Musician

"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it"

Randy Newman, Comedian

"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free"

Harry Browne, Writer

"I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about"

Natalie Cole, Musician

"Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

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