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

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.

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.

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.

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