John Ashcroft Quotes

Death by drunken driving is a socially acceptable form of homicide.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

Most Americans are like me and drink relatively little, yet we all pay for alcohol-related crashes.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. There isn't a person on this planet by this time who doesn't know that when you consume alcohol you shouldn't get behind the wheel of a car. The people who do it anyway should have their privilege to drive taken away.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night.

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

Prohibition created more drunks than anything else.

Most of the males have a strong passion for strong drink, especially rum.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I did so many crazy things while drinking.

I drink a lot of beer.

I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.