William R. Brownfield

It is impossible not to celebrate the end of 50 years of armed conflict.

If we do not have an adequate and functioning road system, counter-narcotic strategy will not succeed.

We must not forget that one of the parties to the accord has been designated for years as a foreign terrorist organization.

To solve the problem, we must cut off international supply.

This opioid crisis is perhaps our worst drug crisis in 30 years.

He is trying to bring to conclusion a 50-year armed conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Colombian citizens.

I do believe that the federal Government of Mexico today has far better, more professional, better trained and equipped institutions than they did at the start of the Merida Initiative 7 or 8 years ago.

If you take ivory completely out of any commercial value whatsoever, you have the impact of discouraging the criminal networks from continuing to poach.

If we are not working with those partners, we are at a minimum--at a minimum--failing to make use of a very effective means to multiply the impact of whatever we are doing.

The overwhelming majority of the heroin that is now entering the United States is coming from Mexico.

We have got to get our head around that problem set, and we will have to address it or we will pay very long term consequences.