Amount Quote by Bill Bruford

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want…

— Gary Johnson

What America needs now is a drink,

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

— Billy Carter

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open…

— Abraham Lincoln

We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be…

— Neneh Cherry

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

— Edith Sitwell

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

— Thomas Jefferson

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

— William Faulkner

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

— Santiago Durango

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

— Bill Bruford

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

— Daniel Silva

The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a…

— David Daiches