Drug War Quotes
- On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison… — Michael Badnarik
- The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
- It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been… — George McGovern
- In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy… — Rodney S. Quinn
- More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery… — Mira Sorvino
- Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and… — Noam Chomsky
- The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion. — David Simon
- The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there… — David Talbot
- [T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has… — Jacob G. Hornberger
- See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug… — Milton Friedman
- The drug war has been waged almost exclusively in ghetto communities, resulting in what I believe is a racial under cast. — Michelle Alexander