Rob Portman Quotes

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

I've never done drugs in my life.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

I'm very fond of drugs.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

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.

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

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.