Ron Lewis Quotes

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

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

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

I'm very fond of drugs.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

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.

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

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.

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

We know the war on drugs will not be won in Washington DC When the United States of America decides it wants to do something and the people pull together, amazing things can be done.

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

The real drug "kingpin" is the user. It is the casual users who create the profits. But we can't put them all in prison; there isn't any room in the jails.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

It is designed to place the entire interstate traffic in the habit forming drugs under the administration of the Treasury Department. It is the opinion of the American Opium Commission that it would bring this whole traffic and the use of these drugs into the light of day and thereby create a public opinion against the use of them that would be more important, perhaps, than the Act itself.