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

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

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

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.

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.

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