Karen Tandy Quotations

These people are a new kind of drug kingpin,

Make no mistake; they're not just ordinary drug traffickers. To call them that would be something akin to calling Al Capone a tax cheat.

The key to ending drug trafficking is to wipe out the money side.

The Arellano Felix organization is now in ruins,

More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.

The scientific and medical communities have determined that smoked marijuana is a health danger, not a cure, ... There is no medical evidence that smoking marijuana helps patients.

The drug dealers that used to be in the back alley are now in the bedrooms of our children because they come to them through the Internet.

We followed the money around the globe and into the hands of major Colombian drug traffickers, ... We've shown the black market peso exchange for what it is -- the largest known drug-money laundering mechanism in the Western Hemisphere.

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

We are identifying, targeting, disrupting and dismantling some of the world's leading opium and heroin trafficking organizations,