Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
Gary Earl Johnsonis an American businessman, politician and the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party. He was the Libertarian Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1953
CityMinot, ND
CountryUnited States of America
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Pot smokers may be the largest untapped voting bloc in the country. ... A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
We just wanted to give him this and more.
Control it, regulate it, tax it, ... If you legalize it we might actually have a healthier society.
An FBI agent and a Carter County deputy went to the scene, ... As they were driving up they noticed at a pay phone one of the fugitives -- (Charles) Jordan. They immediately arrested him without incident.
Everything is being done that can be done. And yet, we may just be seeing the beginning of what is a real catastrophe.
As (the maintenance supervisor) bent over to look at (a) motor, someone struck him in the head with an ax handle, and he was rendered unconscious,
We had a lot of new faces out there and they performed admirably in the cold. Overall it was a very rewarding experience for them.
We've known for really the last couple of years, but not exactly when it would happen. He'd said in the next year or so he'd like to go back to teaching.