Townsend Harris Quotes

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

The effect of the [opium prohibition] edict was electrical. Farmers stopped cultivation with little resistance. Smokers abandoned the habit by millions; it became unfashionable to smoke in public; and the young were constrained not to acquire the habit…

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

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

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

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.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

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

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

Asking South American peasants to stop growing coca is like asking the Scots to stop growing barley because people on the other side of the world could not hold their drink.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

There are no outdoor games in China, or indeed games except in a gambling sense. Absolute dullness and dreariness seem to prevail everywhere. As these two demons drive the Caucasian to drink, so they drive the Chinese to his opium….The Japanese to a man fear opium as we fear the cobra or the rattlesnake, and they despise its victims.

In the United States, at least one druggist out of every ten exists by means of profits from the sale of habit-forming drugs, of which, of course, opium and its derivatives are most important.

We found that we had captured, with the Philippines, an opium problem

When foreign affairs were ruled by autocracies or oligarchies the danger of war was in sinister purpose. When foreign affairs are ruled by democracies the danger of war will be in mistaken beliefs.

The Egyptians prefer the English because they pay for everything. The French take everything and pay for nothing..