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

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'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.

The purpose of discovering your purpose is so that you can fulfill it.

If God grace can only come through slaughtering animals, then their is no need of god.No one is above t humanity.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Spread love and continue life. Keep creating life, that's my message!