frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding citizens into addicts who ruin their health, their lives and their families.

Overall, drug addicts are idiots.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.

We feel he hasn't listened to the public and the public's opinion. As citizens, this [recall] is the only recourse we do have.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.