Barry McCaffrey Quotes (28 Quotes)

Drug Policy czar Barry McCaffrey believes the measures are premature since clinical research to determine the safety of marijuana use by AIDS patients has not yet been established. He also believes supporters of the initiatives have something else in mind. Prejudging that research through a political process would be irresponsible, ... This isn't medicine this is drug legalization.

As powerful as television is, some experts believe that movies have an even stronger impact on young people.

We are now seeing a clear trend, ... Teen drug use is down significantly and rapidly for two straight years.

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.

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

everyone understands that a team effort is needed to confront the drug crisis.

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.

Researchers did not propose any restrictions or censorship, saying, We do not suggest that we want to dictate the message. ... We are suggesting they need to be tied to the consequences that are realistic, given our experiences in American life.

The sun is setting on American dreams in Iraq what remains now to be worked out are the modalities of withdrawal, which depend on the powers of forbearance in the American body politic. But the dynamic has already been set in place. The United States is running out of troops. By the spring of 2006, nearly every active-duty combat unit is likely to have been deployed twice. The National Guard and Reserves, meanwhile, make up an unprecedented 40 percent of the force, and the Guard is in the stage of meltdown, ... the wheels are coming off.

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 years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

has a reputation of impeccable integrity.

It's a national issue now. It's not just a California or an Arizona issue. We know that these proponents of drug legalization are promoting it in other states, too.

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 to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get through a process and demonstrate scientific validity. And in this case, to be honest, I think it's nonsense. This is mostly a 'Cheech and Chong' show for the quasi-legalization of marijuana.

We first began to see increased drug use among this age group several years ago when they were teens, ... Sadly, now that this age group has established drug use patterns, they and our society will be dealing with the harms associated with increased drug use -- disease, overdoses, health care costs, crime and the like -- for years to come, as they grow older.

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

(Drug smuggling) has gotten immeasurably worse in the last year, and we are determined to play hardball with international drug criminals,

That 16th time is a killer.

A giant problem for America. A small number of us, a little more than 1 of the American population addicted to illegal drugs, but taking a 35 billion dollar bite out of the health care system. Responsible for a third of all the AIDS in America and so on. It's just a tremendous nightmare. That problem needs to be addressed.

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

The heart and soul of the national effort ought to be prevention, education and treatment, ... In the last five years, we've increased our prevention budget by 52 percent, our treatment budget has gone up by a third. ... We are putting our money where our mouth is.

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. (Laughter.) My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

We came out of it with a firm commitment to continue to uphold federal law, to capture data on what starts to go wrong because of these two propositions, and we are going to attempt to educate other state authorities on what actually happened.

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

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

I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's 49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters.

The technique is particularly effective with young people, who frequently try to emulate the looks, behavior and attitude of their favorite stars.

As a result, the campaign takes a long-term view on working with filmmakers and understands that we may not see concrete results for several years.