Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

Sanjay Gupta

I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.

Roseanne Barr

Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.

Ronald Reagan

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

Morgan Freeman

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Jacob Zuma

We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

Noam Chomsky

Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don't think there's a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It's much less dangerous than alcohol, for example.

P. J. O'Rourke

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

William Nicholson

Use your power gently.

Richard Rogers

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There's no way to use power for good.

Tzipi Livni

You must use force against terrorism.

Walt Kelly

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

Whitney M. Young

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.