America Quote by Dick Gregory Download Open image “America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.” — Dick Gregory ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Drug Hard Percent Population World
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Worldwide pharmaceutical opiate production rose steadily but it was the United States...that now consumed 83 percent of the world's oxycodone and fully 99 percent of the world's hydrocodone... "Gram for gram...people in the United States consume more narcotic medication than any other nation worldwide." Drugs containing hydrocodone became the most prescribed drugs in America (136 million prescriptions a year...), and… — Sam Quinones Copy Share
A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the number of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
“The world of global drug production, shipping distribution, sales, and consumption is too complex, however, to be understood in any single us-and-them story.” — John Gibler Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.” — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image