Drug Cartels Quotes

Show me one American drug kingpin who has been put in jail in America. There are a number of Hispanic kingpins from South and Central America but I don’t see any Mr. Smith’s.

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

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

If you call Escobar to trial, you can be sure that all the members of your family tree—ancestors and offspring—will be eliminated. We are capable of executing you anywhere on this planet. There is no place you can hide.

I hate anyone that is involved in the drug business.

Not since the collapse of the attempt to prohibit the ingestion of alcohol has our liberty been in such danger as it now is from the misnamed “war on drugs.”

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

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.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

I inherited the War on Drugs from a former president who inherited it from a president who also inherited it from a former president. I’m not sure who it is that we are fighting but I know we are not winning.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

The consequences of Fast and Furious are higher crime and more deaths. I remain committed to seeing justice brought for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the hundreds of Mexicans who have lost their lives.

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

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.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

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