Barry Mccaffrey Quotes

#1. 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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Barry McCaffrey

#3. I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Marina Abramovic

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

Barry McCaffrey

#5. 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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Barry McCaffrey

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

Barry McCaffrey

#8. When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.

Felicia Day

#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.

Barry McCaffrey

#10. 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.

Barry McCaffrey

#11. When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Rae Carson

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

Barry McCaffrey

#13. I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

Art Buchwald

#14. The best part of writing is sharing it.

Kerry Langan

#15. 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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Barry McCaffrey

#17. Never permit failure to become a habit.

William Frederick Book

#18. 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

Barry McCaffrey

#19. 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.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Barry McCaffrey

#21. If a bunch of guys started staring at a girl and teasing her, Tayyip would always shut them up,

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