Gurpreet Ghuggi Quotes

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

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

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.

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.

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

Until we do something about demand, Latin America will never be able to solve the drug problem on its own.

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.

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

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

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.

Well, we got plenty of heroin in my district. We don’t need any more. So I suggest you try it in Queens and Staten Island. They don’t have very much there.

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

Your Majesty has not before been thus officially notified, and you may plead ignorance of the severity of our laws, but I now give my assurance that we mean to cut this harmful drug forever.

No nation alone, however great its vigilance, can erect a barrier high enough to keep out narcotics when opium is grown or drugs are manufactured without limitation or restriction. The nations of the world must be aroused to cooperate.

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.

Narcotics suppression is a very sexy political issue.

The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

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 think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.