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

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.

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.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Islam might not be a challenge for our survival, but when it comes from the Saudis, it really is a concerning problem for the world peace and prosperity.

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Just play every hand, you can't miss them all.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.