45 Quotes by Barry McCaffrey

Will I prosecute? Go talk to the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys and the law enforcement officials, because on a case by case basis they will uphold the law.

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.

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

We have made the drug criminals afraid. We will now make them disappear, ... and this is only beginning of it.

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.

There has to be strict compliance with safety concerns,

Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.

be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.

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