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.

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.

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

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

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