Alcohol Quote by Rodney S. Quinn

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

— Dave Barry

The fact that people of all colors have been ensnared by the drug war helps to preserve the system as a whole from serious…

— Michelle Alexander

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International…

— Noam Chomsky

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is…

— Ellen Willis

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),…

— Noam Chomsky

In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests…

— Michelle Alexander

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably…

— George McGovern

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is…

— Ralph Nader

We have now spent 1 trillion dollars waging the drug war since it began. A trillion. Those funds could have been used for education,…

— Michelle Alexander

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…

— David Talbot

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many…

— William S. Burroughs