Tony Cardenas Quotes

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds. And while physical stress plays a role in some fatalities, most reflect the kind of extreme drinking that’s in the DNA of so-called Greek life. Do we need any cause beyond all of that dying to do away with fraternities wherever possible and to diminish their prominence at schools where various circumstances, including the housing that fraternities provide, prevent them from being shuttered?

Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision’, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

Its refusal to stand by the newspaper was a decision that will live in legal infamy.

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.