Drugs Quotes

"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

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

Bob Riley, Politician

"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

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

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police"

Keith Richards, Musician

"I only get ill when I give up drugs"

Keith Richards, Musician

"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

"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"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

"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me"

John Perkins, Economist

"I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture"

Joe Morton, Actor

"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 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

"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

"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

"Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy"

Slick Rick, Musician

"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia"

John Howard, Statesman

"Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs"

Suzanne Fields

"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life"

Rick Allen, Musician

"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over"

John Perkins, Economist

"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

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"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

"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"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

"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

"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

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