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

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

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

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.

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.

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