Mark Kennedy Quotes

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

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.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

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.

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

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.

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.

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

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

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

Up with hope, down with dope

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

The problem of drugs is a national failure. We do not grow cocoa leaves in Albany.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.