Nigel Farage Quotes

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

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

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

This has been a clear mandate to Congress to end, as soon as possible, the tragic folly of federal prohibition.

There is a very strong link between alcohol availability, consumption and crime.

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.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Any government intrusion into the economy deters the alleged beneficiaries from voicing their views or participating in civic life.

That no measures will avail short of rendering ardent spirits a contraband of trade is nearly self evident.

It is the buyers who have created the demand for ardent spirits and made distillation and importation a gainful traffic .... Let the consumer do his duty, and the capitalist, finding his employment unproductive, will quickly discover other channels of useful enterprise.

The fact that the alcohol lobby doesn’t want a particular kind of research to go forward should be a strong reason to fund it immediately”

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.

The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.

Dodd-Frank is a direct cause of the economic struggles millions of Americans continue to face today. The law provides so much regulation that it is a burden on the economy.