Collin C. Peterson Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

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.

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

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

Until we do something about demand, Latin America will never be able to solve the drug problem on its own.

If its not worth spending everything it takes, it's not a war [on drugs].

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

Agitating the community and increasingly forcing itself upon our attention is the narcotic drug evil. I am convinced that part of the agitation on this subject is due to the sensationalism of certain types of newspapers and magazines. Lurid, sensational articles, intended to inflame the imagination of young people and to make the whole subject mysteriously and morbidly attractive, have led to the prevalence of a belief that the use of narcotic drugs is much more general than it really is.

Uncle Sam is the Worst Drug Fiend in the World Of all the nations of the world the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation.

We found that we had captured, with the Philippines, an opium problem

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.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.