Tommy Chong Quotes

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

I support Bernie [Sanders] and I love his approach.

Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.