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 the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

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

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

I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.