Barry McCaffrey Quotes

#1. The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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

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

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#6. We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

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#7. 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.

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#8. When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

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#9. 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.

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

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

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#12. What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

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

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

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