"Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide."

-- Raymond Kendall

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“I donâ€™t really know what â€œintellectualâ€ means, but if it means youâ€™ve got a desire to learn, youâ€™ve got a desire to look for things that havenâ€™t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that â€œintellectualâ€ is quite an exclusive word. I think itâ€™s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.”
“It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.”
“Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies,”
“The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you can’t lead and you can’t deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far too many occasions over the last four years where the House has been ineffective.”

Source : "Conservative Lawmaker Who Voted Against John Boehner Raps His Leadership". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.
“A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.”
“Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.”
“There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.”

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