Barry McCaffrey Quotes

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• 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…
• At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This…
• 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…
• Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
• 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,…
• The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
• 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.
• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
• 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.
• What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined…
• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten…

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