Gary Johnson Quotes
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
Johnson, Gary. Speech at the Drug Policy Foundation Conference. Washington, D.C., 13 May 1999.
Despite the known link to crime, and the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans that do illicit drugs, Mr. Bennett and most of his successors did not target drinking in their various war on drug efforts despite the fact that alcohol is a much more dangerous and addicting drug than any of the illicit drugs. In the George W, Bush administration, health authorities in the government were ordered not to tell the public that alcohol was a drug despite the fact that all the Surgeon Generals and medical science has explained that it is not only a dangerous drug, but is a drug that induces violence more so than any other drug. The alcohol lobby did not want the public to associate the alcohol industry with the evils that drug dealers produce, so they used their political clout with the Bush administration for whom the industry provided large political contributions as well as conservative political consultants.
Gary Earl Johnson is an American businessman, author, politician, and former presidential candidate who served as the 29th governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. He was also the Libertarian nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in New Mexico.
