I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
Related Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing... GEORGE SOROS Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to th... DREW CAREY Tragically, this decision of the court to reverse Congress' prohibition of 'virtual' child pornograp... JOHN ASHCROFT There is pain in prohibition IRISH SAYINGS The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition ... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio... RHYS IFANS In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cl... CLIFF STEARNS We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. WILLIAM HAZLITT the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a la... STEPHEN LEACOCK Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. WILL ROGERS All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems t... KIN HUBBARD I would encourage those who are affected by this to go to the Supreme Court and question this absolu... FRANKLIN DRILON He basically said when they enforced prohibition here, several thousand prostitutes left Memphis and... DREW BUCHNER Those are counties where - once Prohibition was repealed in 1933 - they never elected to go wet. Or ... DEBI PENDER What they need to do is make it clear that the prohibition is against conduct that amounts to harass... GEORGE LEEF We believe that Prohibition is coming back. EARL DODGE I researched speak-easies in D.C. -- on Georgia Avenue and in Northwest -- during the Prohibition Er... JOE ENGLERT Prohibition? HA! They tried that in the movies and it didn't work HOMER SIMPSON Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. THOMAS L. MASSON Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water TOM MASSON In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the hist... CHARLIE PIERCE Three cheers for Prohibition. Without it where the hell would I be? THE WIZARD OF OZ Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised lon... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. ELENA FERRANTE Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so ... MICHAEL BADNARIK There needs to be an explicit prohibition on discriminatory pricing. JEANNINE KENNEY Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. BENJAMIN DISRAELI The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. VICENTE FOX As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegianc... JACKIE SPEIER I can no longer be party chairman under these conditions. I left my decision open as to whether I wi... FRANZ MUENTEFERING When you have a war, there's going to be casualties, and there's going to be collateral damage. ... ... JACK COLE Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Professor Jeffrey Miron17 of Harvard University has shown that the murder rate has dramatically incr... JOHANN HARI The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into th... FLORENCE SABIN The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, a... SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work. WILL ROGERS I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the st... JESMYN WARD The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. JAMES SUROWIECKI I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own par... COLLIN C. PETERSON Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years... BILL BRYSON The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least me... HUGO BLACK Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana pr... WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three ITALIAN PROVERB Our challenge is to educate more people so that we can activate them. The prohibition in the D.C. ap... ILIR ZHERKA There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as b... VIKRAM PATEL Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and... OLIVER MARKUS For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. JELLO BIAFRA For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. JELLO BIAFRA I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how ... JOSE SARAMAGO My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress... SANJAY DUTT Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. FIELDS Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. FIELDS Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. China stands for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons. CHEN JIAN Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem... VIKRAM PATEL Prohibition doesn't work, and again, they've put the evidence right there showing that responsible r... BRUCE MIRKEN I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has ... ERIK HASSLE I grew up a Democrat. I've supported members in both parties. I've always voted for a person, not a ... HEATH SHULER Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance withi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN This is the United States Congress stepping in and saying these victims cannot get any kind of relie... DENNIS HENIGAN Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I... TONY JUDT For many years, I supported the concept of separate states. F. W. DE KLERK There was definitely broad Senate opposition to the concept of a national 1.5-mile prohibition. ANDY DAVIS They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In r... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I've been astounded by Bush in his relationship with Republicans in Congress. In my lifetime, there ... DAVID KEENE This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States, I can... GENMICHAEL HAYDEN In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what ... ZAINAB SALBI Some Germans may not have supported our war, but they supported us in other ways. COLONEL BRADLEY DENISON prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into DON MARQUIS Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. DON MARQUIS [The statute] is used by the government from time to time in lieu of not having a criminal prohibiti... WILLIAM BANKS The approach we've taken in Nevada is that what we need is a system of regulation, not the Wild West... BRUCE MIRKEN Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I ... STAFFORD CRIPPS It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called r... DIXIE LEE RAY We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try p... THOMAS JORDAN JARVIS The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potenti... LISA STONE The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and... NOVAK DJOKOVIC I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looki... C.S. LEWIS Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be ... ERIK ERIKSON according to a letter from the GAO to the Department of Education. ''This violated the publicity or ... ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against wh... WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. PHILIP GIBBS He has not only been a part of building a successful business operation, but has given back to the c... KATHY HALL It's more quietly discriminatory. There's already discrimination in the drug war and marijuana prohi... CHRISTINA KIMBALL The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job... DANE DEHAAN During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. AL GORE My training session has been going well even though I have not been jumping yet. ANJU GEORGE My training session has been going well even though I have not been jumping yet. ANJU BOBBY GEORGE I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren... BONNIE TYLER People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing... FAROOQ ABDULLAH In Congress, this one clearly crosses party lines. The bottom line is this will not come out of Cong... DARYL KIMBALL Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not grea... GABRIELLE GIFFORDS It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue s... ADRIAN CRONAUER
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