Rick Scott Quotes

A third of all the children born today will be on welfare.

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle.

I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.