America Quote by John Ehrlichman

[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what…

— John Ehrlichman

“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 temptation is to insist that black men 'choose' to be criminals; the system does not make them criminals, at least not in the…

— Michelle Alexander

“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the United States,…

— Radley Balko

Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the drug war…

— Michelle Alexander

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is…

— John Walters

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

— Gore Vidal

“Understanding clearly that what they were doing was illegal, Nixon and Kissinger did it anyway.”

— Gary J. Bass

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

— Rand Paul

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.

— Maia Szalavitz

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in…

— Cory Booker