Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Don’t be defined by someone else’s definition of you.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

I've served my country.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.