“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.” GivenLeaderInformationReadyDrugWeaponsMassResourcesDestructionCrisisWestDenyTerrorismAccessContraryHungryFrightenedAggressiveLackingTestedScenariosWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionChargingTraffickingAnti-americanPower HungryDrug Trafficking Author:Michael Parenti
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.” KnowsChildrenMotherFatherRaceBabyBirthDrugCrisisAgencyPregnantAdoptionHomosexualBirth Mother Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.” BelieveUseSpiritualDrugSurvivalOvercomingCrisisSpeciesListsContemporaryHumankindHomo SapiensEcologicalBiosphereEndangered SpeciesJeopardizeEcological Crisis Author:Jonathan Ott
“Let me tell you what would be a really, really great project for all of us. Why don't we start mentoring kids? Whether we're liberal or conservative, why don't we start going into the schools and giving the kids a sense of their own purpose, their own self-worth, their future, and what they can learn from us? You know, if we're mentoring kids together, we might actually begin to talk to one another again and listen to one another. We have a big crisis all over the country and in our state on drugs.” GivingCountryKidsSchoolTogetherPurposeDrugLet MeCrisisConservativeReally GreatMentoring Author:John Kasich
“The single biggest way to stop the drug crisis is to educate people on the fact that if you do it, it's probably going to kill you or it's going to ruin your life. So why don't we all work together to stop that?” PeopleTogetherDrugCrisisWorking TogetherEducate Author:John Kasich
“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.” CountryEconomyDoorsCostDrugCrisisCriminalsTerroristImmigrationOur CountryIllegalHealthcareJudicialEducation SystemIllegal ImmigrationImmigration LawsLegal Immigration Author:Timothy Murphy
“Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.” GivingShouldCompanyGreaterDrugDoctorsCrisisBillsProtectionLiabilityUnsafePharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Companies Author:Dennis Cardoza
“We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.” WorldAmericaNationsCausesPoorFocusDrugResourcesCrisisTradeDebtAidsAccessAgreementAffordableEpidemicsGenericTrade AgreementsImfWorld BankPoor Nations Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.” LittlesTwoReasonBornPleasureGroupsDrugTragedyCrisisCurrentsAccidentsAlcoholSubstanceCategoriesDividedItemsPhonyCannabisClassification Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.” StatesCareSchoolLyingSocialCausesPoorCommonLeaderIssuesRichEffectsSecurityMediaCrimePoliticianDrugTaxesRacismSolutionsCrisisMessHealth CareWelfareGapsHealthcareUnemploymentSocial SecurityRich And PoorDependencyWelfare StateHigh Taxes Book:The Ten Things You Can't Say In America Source: The Ten Things You Can't Say In America