Alberto Gonzales Quotes

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

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

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

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

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

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.

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

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.

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

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

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

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

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Not since the collapse of the attempt to prohibit the ingestion of alcohol has our liberty been in such danger as it now is from the misnamed “war on drugs.”