We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.

God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

You smell like crap so I know you don't like soap.

I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it.

The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.

Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.