Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of…

— Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left…

— Barry McCaffrey

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with…

— Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in…

— Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey

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…

— Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the…

— Barry McCaffrey

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up…

— Barry McCaffrey

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish…

— Barry McCaffrey

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

— Barry McCaffrey