“Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.” ThinkingAmericaFatherParentLeaderHolyDrugConcernedFairsMeetingsAmbassadorsNancyMadridFlamenco Author:Ronald Reagan
“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
“It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.” NeedsHelpingPoliticalLyingSexLeaderRocksMoralityDrugIndifferenceHypocrisyRock And RollPolitical LeadersCallousThose In NeedSex DrugsSex Drugs And Rock And Roll Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
“New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.” LastsAmericaHateSexLeaderWeekGayDrugNewsDevilBlameMalesTroopsFoxesScrewsEvangelicalScrew UpsJohn KerryFox NewsOur TroopsReverendsHaggard Author:Bill Maher
“It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.” WantStatesUnitedLeaderUnited StatesDrugStandardsPatientCancerChinaSettingCuresSettingsReverseSlow DownHigh StandardsSlowing Author:Bill Gates
“I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?” PeopleLeaderWonderDrugAmazedGreat LeaderDelusional Author:Lewis Black
“When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.” DifferentUseAsksGoalLeaderPolicyDrugConsequenceDecadesReducingDrug Use Author:Noam Chomsky
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman