Latest Rick Steves Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been use will not go up when it's legalized. We'll just take the crime out of it. It's already a huge black market economy.

  Rick Steves

  Fall, Marijuana, Thinking

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

  Rick Steves

  Drug, Reform, Might

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.

  Rick Steves

  Thinking, Self, Law

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• We're still a racist country, but we've come a long way since the civil rights eras and we are still a homophobic country, but we've come a long way in that regard. And we still got a war on marijuana and have come along in that regard.

  Rick Steves

  Country, War, Marijuana

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.

  Rick Steves

  Differences, America, Way

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Gay, Marijuana

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• I've traveled all over the country. Look at the East Coast. They just can't hardly believe how far along we are and in their world it feels like they're still behind. They're on the dark side of the moon.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Believe, Dark

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

• I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.

  Rick Steves

  Thinking, Marijuana, Way

  Source: blog.sfgate.com