Drunk Driving Quotes

• A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

  Woody Allen

  Self, Tree, Defense

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• Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

  Dave Attell

  Funny, School, Humor

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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• The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Reality, Two, Car

  "Mohamed Al Fayed to sue U.S. government to get documents on Diana and Dodi" by Raju Chebium, www.cnn.com. August 30, 2000.

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Europe, Law

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.34, Villard

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• More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.

  Michelle Alexander

  Drunk, Risk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Opportunity, People

  John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

  Nicole Richie

  Responsibility, Drunk, Apologizing

  "Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.

  Tucker Carlson

  Drunk, Sitting, Driving

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Italian, Medicine

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Mother, Home

  "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea". Book by Chelsea Handler, 2008.

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• In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense - typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. Possession of a tiny amount of crack cocaine, on the other hand, was given a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Jail, Hands

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Weekend, Drunk

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

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• I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

  Candy Lightner

  Issues, Drunk, Alcohol

  "MADD struggles to remain relevant". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. August 6, 2002.

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• The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.

  Michelle Alexander

  Views, Drunk, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Law, Drunk

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I'm not for drunk driving - however, the states ought to decide. Different states have different penalties for drunk driving because they're states and they get to do that. If people of one state want to be lighter on drunk drivers, they're wrong. That's their business.

  Tucker Carlson

  People, Drunk, Different

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

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• Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Rights, Law

  Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

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• The spirit he has shown has been second to none. 
  (on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge)

  Terry Venables

  Drunk, England, Spirit

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• [In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

  Jeff Dunham

  Dirty, Drunk, Dui

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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Drunk, Population, Substance

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

  Judd Nelson

  Children, Artist, Drunk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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