John Walters Quotations

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

We want to make sure we continue the decline and deal effectively with the current circumstance.

But that doesn't appear to be stopping them from using (them).

Girls have become users at rates that exceed boys or equal boys now, which never used to be the case.

We must have a balanced strategy. This is a supply and demand problem. This is a problem that requires us to do a mixed number of things and to do them together to optimize results.

I think it's a clear tool not to play hide-and-seek with this problem.

It also finances our enemies. To fight the terror inflicted by killers, thugs and terrorists around the world who depend on American drug purchases to fund their violence, we must stop paying for our own destruction and the destruction of others.

It is not going to be a stranger or some sinister person who offers it. It is going to be your best friend. We have to be sure to prepare them for how they are going to say no to their best friend.

Over the past three years there has been a 17 percent decrease in teenage drug use.

Research tells us there are some straightforward steps parents can take not only to help prevent drug use, but to reduce risk-taking across the board.

Today, the Mexicans have taken over and are running the organized crime, and getting the bulk of the money. The Colombians have pulled back.

This state has been an example not only for other surrounding states but also for the nation and for the world.

We're trying to get out the word that the last 10 years of research have helped to alert us to the use of marijuana in particular is a very dangerous risk for the mental health of our young people.

The reason we're pointing to this alarming trend is because if we're going to get girls to continue to decline in drug use effectively, we're going to have to deal with those causes, which are different.

We need to do a better job at going after the large structures that provide marketing.

We're not radically tearing things up because, for the first time in a couple of decades, we're having dramatic results. We want to keep the pressure on.

You cannot do my job and visit people in the field and not see that faith is at the heart of what many find an important support in their recovery. No one is trying to use government funds to fund religion inappropriately, but we are not going to turn our back on programs and dimensions of programs that are obviously saving lives.

twice as many eighth-graders have tried marijuana today than a decade ago.

The trends of substance use among our adolescent girls are alarming.

I understand the difficulty in extraditing nationals, but left in Mexican jails these people continue to run the show.

I urge young people to consider public service, whether they do it now by volunteering in their community or prepare for public service as an adult.

The risks associated with marijuana have been trivialized and our kids are getting the wrong message, ... We must arm parents, teachers, community leaders and our children with the truth.

The suggestion is not to say too many children are being shot in their dens who are marijuana users.

Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.

Your example has not only made lives better here ... but it is no exaggeration that there are children you will never meet and families you will never hear thank you from whose lives are being saved.

This is the first time that we've recorded this kind of relationship between boys' and girls' drug use. In the past, boys have had higher rates of use - and significantly higher rates of use at certain times in the past.

This budget is increasing by seven percent. That's outrageous.

You don't want them to choose substances of abuse as a way of dealing with stress. You want to be a good example yourself and help them learn that there are positive ways to deal with stress and growing up.

That is an enormous gift to the country as well as an enormous gift to the state.

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

They are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure, even when they have been told and accepted that these behaviors are risky for them.

They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.

I know President Alvaro Uribe is committed and so is President Bush. Obviously we all want this process to go faster, and we're working toward that.

In 2001, President Bush asked me to become Director of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-rank position that coordinates federal drug programs.

In order to drive it down further, we have to deal with today's substance abuse reality, and today's reality is, girls have been using at higher rates than boys in critical areas.

However, if we are to continue the progress we have made in reducing drug use among young people, we must explore other ways to bring drug use down.

The great lie about Ecstasy is that it is safe, it's fun, it's harmless and it's fashionable. It is a danger because of both supply and attitudes are going in the wrong direction.

All the research and experience tells us that education begins in our families of matters of right and wrong, health and safety, and responsibility.