Cory Booker Quotes

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

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 war on drugs is a war against the communities.

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.

The Drug War has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

I know of nothing you can sell where you can make a greater profit than drugs—if you survive.

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

All of you who are into drugs, you sons-of-bitches, I will really kill you.

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.

The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

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

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.

I'm very fond of drugs.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

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

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

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

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

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

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.”