William Bennett Quotes

There isn't any way to keep drugs out of this country.

Drug prohibition enriches criminals and creates an artificially inflated price that lures young people into the drug trade.... We have created a drug exception to the Constitution.

The war on drugs is all about money and power, the money and power of politicians, bureaucrats, police and drug dealers.

Why attempt to keep drugs out of the country, or prevent them from being sold? After all, police can't be everywhere at once. Since choices have to be made, it will be tempting to let the drug trade proceed unmolested, then just go after the cash.

I've never been a big fan of interdiction. Let's imagine for a minute that you could stop all drugs coming into the United States—all heroin, all cocaine. Synthetic drugs would take over within two months.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

The military is afraid to get into this war [on drugs] because it's a tough one.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

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.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

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

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

The war on drugs has produced about 10,000 additional homicides a year.

I drove across the bridge over the Potomac River and got out of the car. There were marijuana plants growing as far as the eye could see. And they wanted me to eliminate it.

If its not worth spending everything it takes, it's not a war [on drugs].

Narcotics suppression is a very sexy political 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.