The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Drugs flow as effortlessly through the harbour as through los esteros, but the government and the DEA view drug trafficking as more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Before the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on cancer, there was the war on female sexual desire.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Law enforcement in the United States, thanks largely to the war on drugs; routinely targets people of color often living in ghetto… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The human parallels are important here, because the legend of the urban pit bull would become a literal companion piece to America’s… — Bronwen Dickey Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
“At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“Fucking war on drugs, my ass. Should have legalized it twenty years ago. Rather come up against a guy smoking a joint… — John Lansing Copy Share Image
The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don’t. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for… — Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena Copy Share Image
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