Rick Larsen Quotes

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.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

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

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.

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

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

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

Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

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

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

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

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.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

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 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.

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

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.

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

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

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.

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.