"We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs"

"He has committed the crime who profits by it"

"To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it"

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty"

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

"The crime novel has always been my favourite genre"