Greg Walden Quotes

Your Majesty has not before been thus officially notified, and you may plead ignorance of the severity of our laws, but I now give my assurance that we mean to cut this harmful drug forever.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

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.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

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

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.'

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

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

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

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