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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. -- Gary Johnson
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. -- David Talbot
The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion. -- David Simon
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners. -- Jerry Brown
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs. -- Jim Hightower
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it. -- Marc Maron
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses. -- William S. Burroughs
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? -- Ralph Nader
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth. -- Noam Chomsky
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. -- Milton Friedman
I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time. -- Ayelet Waldman
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. -- Joel Miller
No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux. -- Rodney S. Quinn
The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head. -- Ayelet Waldman
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease. -- George McGovern
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism. -- David Simon
I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we're never going to win. -- Sonny Barger
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves. -- Mira Sorvino
ChÃ¡vez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela. -- Rory Carroll
The war on drugs is a war against the communities. -- Holly Near
The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis. -- Rhys Ifans
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. -- Barry McCaffrey
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates. -- David Harsanyi
Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause. -- Mel Carnahan
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. -- Michael Badnarik
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. -- Tony Hillerman
It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. -- Margot Kidder
There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that. -- Deborah Ellis
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people. -- Don Winslow
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. -- Neal Boortz
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. -- Jim Cooper
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. -- Larry Elder
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. -- L. Neil Smith
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. -- Larry Elder
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. -- Bob Filner
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. -- Bruce Jackson
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. -- Gary Johnson
The Drug War is an addiction, really. -- Bill Maher
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. -- Chris Hedges
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs. -- Ethan Nadelmann
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her. -- Tatjana Soli
I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you. -- Bill Hicks

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