Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Quotes

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

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

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

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.

The war on drugs has produced about 10,000 additional homicides a year.

We are very grateful for what Western society has brought us ... but we owe you no gratitude for the traffic of cocaine which is a foreign enterprise ... this problem is the responsibility of the consumer countries rather than the producing countries.

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 don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

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

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

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

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

Well, we got plenty of heroin in my district. We don’t need any more. So I suggest you try it in Queens and Staten Island. They don’t have very much there.

Drugs come to America, not by invasion, but by invitation.

The real drug "kingpin" is the user. It is the casual users who create the profits. But we can't put them all in prison; there isn't any room in the jails.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

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

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

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the early 1970s, and it is wasted money

As long as there is a demand [for drugs], there will be a supply.

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

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

I hate anyone that is involved in the drug business.