283 Quotes on Drugs

• Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

  Author: John Wozniak

• Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Author: Robin Williams

• The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

  Author: Robbie Williams

• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world.

  Author: Kelli White

• When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

  Author: John Walters

• In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

  Author: John Walters

• As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.

  Author: John Walters

• Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

  Author: John Walters

• This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

  Author: John Walters

• Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

  Author: John Walters

• There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

  Author: John Walters

• The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

  Author: John Walters

• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  Author: James Walsh

• As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

  Author: Ville Valo

• A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Author: Steve Tyler

• I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  Author: Ike Turner

• Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

  Author: Robert Trout

• Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Author: Hunter Thompson

• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Author: Serj Tankian

• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Author: Serj Tankian

• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

  Author: Danny Sugerman

• There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

  Author: Peter Steele

• That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

  Author: Paul Stanley

• I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  Author: Layne Staley

• There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

  Author: Layne Staley

• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• 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 acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  Author: L. Smith

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'm very fond of drugs.

  Author: Grace Slick

• We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

  Author: John Shirley

• We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.

  Author: Mike Shinoda

• But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

  Author: Ally Sheedy

• While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

  Author: Gus Sant

• You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

  Author: Greg Rusedski

• Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

  Author: Leo Rosten

• I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

  Author: Chris Rock

• I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

  Author: Bob Riley

• Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

  Author: Slick Rick

• I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

  Author: Keith Richards

• I only get ill when I give up drugs.

  Author: Keith Richards

• I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

  Author: Ving Rhames

• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

  Author: Lou Reed

• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

  Author: John Perkins

• I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

  Author: John Perkins

• The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

  Author: Carre Otis

• I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

  Author: Carre Otis

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

  Author: Tatum O'Neal

• Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

  Author: Jamie Oliver

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Author: Ted Nugent

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  Author: Randy Newman

• The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

  Author: Holly Near

• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

  Author: Joe Morton

• Drugs are a bet with your mind.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

  Author: Elizabeth Moon

• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Author: Katherine Moennig

• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

  Author: Mick Miller

• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  Author: J. Miller

• We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

  Author: Gerald McRaney

• I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

  Author: Barry McGuire

• I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

  Author: Linda McCartney

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  Author: Barry McCaffrey

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  Author: Barry McCaffrey

• What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

  Author: Barry McCaffrey

• We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

  Author: Armistead Maupin

• I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

  Author: Cliff Martinez

• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Author: Burke Marshall

• It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

  Author: Patrick Marber

• Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

  Author: Ray Manzarek

• In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

  Author: Aimee Mann

• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

  Author: Bill Maher

• I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  Author: Courtney Love

• I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

  Author: Courtney Love

• I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

  Author: Jay London

• I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.

  Author: Jared Leto

• The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

  Author: John Lennon

• If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

  Author: Spike Lee

• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

  Author: Wayne Kramer

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  Author: Wayne Kramer

• It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

  Author: Herb Kohl

• I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Author: Harmon Killebrew

• Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Author: Harmon Killebrew

• There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

  Author: Jonathan Katz

• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Author: Alberto Juantorena

• Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

  Author: Al Jourgensen

• In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

  Author: Sara Jordan

• Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.

  Author: Marion Jones

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

  Author: Don Johnson

• People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

  Author: Don Johnson

• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Author: Elton John

• If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

  Author: Rick James

• After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

  Author: Rick James

• In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

  Author: Brion James

• I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on.

  Author: Curtis Jackson

• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  Author: Vanilla Ice

• It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

  Author: John Howard

• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

  Author: Bernard Hinault

• Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

  Author: Tony Hillerman

• Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

  Author: Bill Hicks

• If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

  Author: Bill Hicks

• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  Author: Bill Hicks

• Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

  Author: Keith Henson

• Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

  Author: Mariel Hemingway

• I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

  Author: Mitch Hedberg

• I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

  Author: Mickey Hart

• Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

  Author: Richard Harris

• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Author: Pauline Hanson

• I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

  Author: Merle Haggard

• Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

  Author: Merle Haggard

• When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

  Author: Bill Griffith

• If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

  Author: Dick Gregory

• We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

  Author: Chuck Grassley

• If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

  Author: Chuck Grassley

• I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

  Author: Chuck Grassley

• When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

  Author: Matt Gonzalez

• Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

  Author: Malcolm Gladwell

• Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.

  Author: David Gill

• I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

  Author: Michael Giles

• Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

  Author: Kathie Gifford

• There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

  Author: Leif Garrett

• The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

  Author: Jerry Garcia

• I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

  Author: Jerry Garcia

• And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

  Author: Jerry Garcia

• I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

  Author: Milton Friedman

• It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

  Author: Glenn Frey

• If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

  Author: Jonathan Franzen

• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  Author: Vicente Fox

• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Author: Milos Forman

• The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• Drugs made me feel more normal.

  Author: Carrie Fisher

• Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

  Author: Martin Fischer

• These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

  Author: Bob Filner

• Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

  Author: Marianne Faithfull

• I took drugs because we all took drugs.

  Author: Marianne Faithfull

• Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

  Author: Gloria Estefan

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  Author: M. Escher

• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Author: Larry Elder

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Author: Larry Elder

• Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  Author: Ian Dury

• And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

  Author: Santiago Durango

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  Author: K. Drexler

• Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

  Author: Kyan Douglas

• Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

  Author: Don Dokken

• It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

  Author: Snoop Dogg

• I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

  Author: Casper Dien

• Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

  Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

• I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

  Author: Cameron Diaz

• Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

  Author: Jim Diamond

• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

  Author: Ted Demme

• You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

  Author: Kim Deal

• I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

  Author: Taylor Dayne

• Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

  Author: Kristin Davis

• Drugs scared me.

  Author: Larry David

• I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

  Author: Salvador Dali

• Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

  Author: Dick Dale

• Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

  Author: Jamie Curtis

• By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

  Author: Elijah Cummings

• They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

  Author: Norman Cook

• I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

  Author: Sean Connery

• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  Author: Natalie Cole

• I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

  Author: Bram Cohen

• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Author: Jean Cocteau

• I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

  Author: Kurt Cobain

• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

  Author: Kurt Cobain

• Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

  Author: George Clooney

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  Author: Madonna Ciccone

• Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

  Author: Alex Chilton

• We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

  Author: Chevy Chase

• Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

  Author: Geraldine Chaplin

• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  Author: Nicolas Chamfort

• Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

  Author: Mel Carnahan

• Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

  Author: Mel Carnahan

• Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Author: Kim Campbell

• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  Author: Augusten Burroughs

• The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

  Author: Jim Bunning

• This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

  Author: Lindsey Buckingham

• I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

  Author: Bill Bruford

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  Author: Harry Browne

• Drugs won't enhance your performance.

  Author: Morgan Brittany

• I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

  Author: Morgan Brittany

• By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

  Author: Jo Brand

• I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

  Author: Jack Bowman

• If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

  Author: Neal Boortz

• I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

  Author: Andrea Bocelli

• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

  Author: Roy Blount, Jr.

• I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

  Author: Ruben Blades

• Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.

  Author: Marsha Blackburn

• Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

  Author: Michael Bergin

• Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

  Author: Paul Berg

• I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

  Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

• As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

  Author: Lester Bangs

• We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

  Author: Anita Baker

• Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

  Author: Michael Badnarik

• Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Author: Michael Baden

• Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

  Author: Joe Baca

• No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

  Author: David Axelrod

• If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

  Author: Billie Armstrong

• We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

  Author: Jeffrey Archer

• I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

  Author: Stuart Appleby

• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Author: Jeff Ament

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