Barry McCaffrey Quotes

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Conclusion, Valuable, Draws

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• 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.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Mother, Beer, Hands

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• 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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Ideas, Democracy, Left

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• 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

  Drug, Problem, Colombia

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Children, War, Fighting

  "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.

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• 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 is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Military, War, Army

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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 drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Numbers, Goal, Priorities

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• 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.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Thank God, Trying, Borders

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Mexico, Levels, May

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Mexico

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

  Barry McCaffrey

  Fighting, Doe, Study

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• We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Horse, Views, Drug

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• The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Health, Drug, Problem

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