Drug Quotes - Page 13

• If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Decision, Negative

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Children, War, Fighting

  "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.

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• Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

  John Mica

  Mean, Gun, Rights

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", votesmart.org. June 27, 2012.

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• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Wentworth Miller

  Inspirational, Book, Creativity

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• It’s actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you’re dealing drugs. If you get caught you’re going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it’s much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Punishment, Risk, Custody

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

  Mandy Moore

  Organization, Phones, People

  "U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad — And Here at Home" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

  Michael Moore

  Night, Watches, News

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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Elderly, Sick, Parent

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• I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

  Jim Morrison

  Music, Hippie, Believe

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• 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

  Country, Doors, Criminals

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• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

  Mean, Giving, Alcohol

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• If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mean, Modern, Autobiography

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

  Gary Oldman

  Coping Mechanisms, Would Be, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Funny, Crazy, Missing

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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Good Morning, Mean, Years

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• The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine, Physicians, Disease

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• I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

  Carre Otis

  Fasting, Pills, Weight

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• You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Law, Crime

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• I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

  Mike Pence

  Wall, Bills, Entitlement

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, "Ingenue", March 1996.

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Poison

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• In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Safety, Police

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• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

  Nancy Reagan

  Political, Tone

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• In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Perfect, Insanity

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