"We need a defense-in-depth."
"We need to refocus our efforts on the traditional forms of illicit markets that are driven by organized crime."
"there is an unequivocal relationship"
"I really believe strongly that post-9/11, not shortly thereafter, we took our eye off the ball of the global drug trade."
"I think it's far worse than that. That's a very conservative estimate, as well it should be, but suffice it to say that it is a growing phenomenon."
"In places like the Tri-Border area of Latin America, in places like West Africa, and I particularly believe in some permissive environments within Mexico, groups like very powerful drug trafficking gr..."
"Where you see one roach, there are thousands."
"What happens on the African Continent with respect to security threats does not stay on the African Continent."