Newt Gingrich Quotes

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

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.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

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

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

The Drug War is probably the worst scourge that has ever been visited upon this country.

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

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.

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

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

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.

The war on drugs has failed. Its failure has been so categorical and self-evident that the statement itself is bromidic. By any reasonable metric of success—addiction rates, violence, the availability of drugs in our schools— it’s clear that our 40-year jihad against certain plants and chemicals has done far more harm than good.

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

People are slaves to a plant! Cocoa, cocaine, the coca plant—people are hooked on a vegetable!

I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.