The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

Stephen Leacock

It's just astonishing to me that a firm could allow an analyst to participate in a road show -- and the fact that the prohibition on such conduct isn't literally in effect yet doesn't make me any less disappointed.

Stephen Cutler

There was definitely broad Senate opposition to the concept of a national 1.5-mile prohibition.

Andy Davis

The security issue is driven by fear. I don't believe SDMI will come out with any prohibition for playing back the music that's already out there. It's too early to predict how piracy will be minimized. There will be devices with no security that are just as safe as secure ones.

Mark Hardie

He basically said when they enforced prohibition here, several thousand prostitutes left Memphis and went to St. Louis.

Drew Buchner

The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it's irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe's. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.

Lisa Stone

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

Don Marquis

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.

Tom Masson

I would not have agreed to the plea bargain had I known about the double jeopardy prohibition.

Paul Phillips

When you have a war, there's going to be casualties, and there's going to be collateral damage. ... None of this would be happening if we ended the prohibition on drugs the way we ended the prohibition on alcohol.

Jack Cole

He had an effective removal order against him, he had a legal deportation order against him, there was no legal prohibition to remove him, and we were of the opinion that he was a danger to the public.

Janis Fergusson

The continued prohibition against such bargaining will not only hurt seniors but will fleece the American taxpayer.

Ron Pollack

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Will Rogers

China stands for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons.

Chen Jian

There needs to be an explicit prohibition on discriminatory pricing.

Jeannine Kenney

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

According to a letter from the GAO to the Department of Education. ''This violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition.

Armstrong Williams

Our challenge is to educate more people so that we can activate them. The prohibition in the D.C. appropriations bill is on lobbying activities, and this is not lobbying. This is education.

Ilir Zherka

We believe that Prohibition is coming back.

Earl Dodge