Big Quote by David Keene

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer…

— Al Franken

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

— Sidney Blumenthal

The war on drugs - a big-government product if there ever was one - has been wildly unsuccessful, by any metric.

— S.E. Cupp

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

— Sidney Blumenthal

“the government’s drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived…

— Piper Kerman

The most common mistakes were investing in money market funds by people who were so scared at the prospect of managing their own funds…

— Hedrick Smith

“A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from…

— Daniel Waterman

The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business…

— Richard Branson

When George W. Bush became president, Republicans authorized a series of massive tax cuts that ballooned the federal deficit and worsened income equality, and…

— Neera Tanden

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors…

— Marty Meehan

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but…

— Denise Dresser

“They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with a calculus…

— Matt Taibbi