Kinky Friedman Quotes

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

That no one shall invite another to drink under penalty of 3 sous….If anyone be found intoxicated he shall pay for the first offence 3 sous and shall be remanded to the consistory ; for the second offence he shall he held to pay the sum of 6 sous, and for the third 10 sous and be put in prison.

An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the City of Annapolis, or within five miles thereof, to minors and people of color.

Until it’s a government worth supporting, I don’t think we should support it.

Since 17-year-olds can join the military, there is no way our legislature is going to tell [them] they’re old enough to risk their lives for our country but they’re too young to get married.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.

Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.