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

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

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.

The papers are signed. The papers are sealed.The adoption is completed.You are the adopted sons and daughters of the Most High God. A family.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Being on TV and getting everything paid for are the two reasons to do it with us instead of the court of law.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.