Quotes about Trafficking

It's a big credibility issue for the drug war, more than anything, because there is a big contingent of people in Congress and the (Bush) administration who have taken a hard line against drug trafficking. It's very odd and hurts their credibility if these same elements in Congress and the administration remain silent on this and just let it slide.

Adam Isacson

The United Nations would like to invite the government to take very tough measures against those governors, or those officials, whether civilians, military police, who are involved in cultivation or refining or trafficking. We wish the government persevered in making its own legal instruments available to the international community, so that traffickers can be extradited.

Antonio Maria Costa

But I firmly believe that there's nothing out there that's going to provide the kind of money that drug trafficking does, that global drug trafficking does at that kind of a scale.

Michael Braun

By traveling safely [you can] diminish the risk of exposure to such dangers as kidnapping, sabotage, extortion, assault, harassment, illegal trafficking, corporate espionage and acts of terrorism.

Mark Hall

We stunned a major drug-trafficking ring which stretched through Westchester, New York City and Connecticut.

David Hall

Mr. Saunders spent nine-tenths of his time asking Mr. Jessup about drug trafficking. He's trying to take you away from the real issue. It wasn't whether Jessup had drugs, it's whether he intentionally pointed a gun (at the officers).

David Freedman

This bill has the potential to end sex trafficking.

Janice Crouse

Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.

Alex Acosta

The tractor trailer was altered, it was concealed in the tractor trailer and it was just the experience and training of these deputies that led them to it. We're going to take this case through federal court and work with our deputies and agents to pursue drug trafficking marijuana in federal court.

Sheriff Mike Hale

The expectations clearly will be that there will be much more room for maneuver on the part not just of the coca farmers, but on the part of trafficking organizations.

Robert Gelbard

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved — that are immense — and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

Steve Robertson

The trafficking of counterfeit goods is a global enterprise that robs legitimate companies of billions of dollars in revenues every year.

Charles Demore

Critics of law enforcement fail to recognize that material witness statutes are designed with judicial oversight safeguards and are critical to aiding criminal investigations ranging from organized-crime rackets to human trafficking.

Kevin Madden

Will do everything in his power to root out the drug lords and to halt drug trafficking as best as he possibly can.

Vincente Fox

The illegal trafficking in prescription medications constitutes a particularly troublesome aspect of the substance abuse problem in America.

Dick Durbin

First there were doubts about the security of the stadiums and at present we are dealing with human trafficking, forced prostitution and right-wing extremism.

Christian Sachs

Usually the agenda (of Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks) is terrorism and drug trafficking but this time we have requested that we would like to discuss the issue of prisoners held in both the countries.

Ahmad Shah

ICE is at the forefront of pursuing those who are engaged in human trafficking. We will continue working with our federal, state, and local partners in investigating, combating and bringing to justice the ruthless traffickers who have no regard for human life and whose only goal to profit at the expense of others.

Jesus Torres

The United States conducts interventions (against drug trafficking) at the invitation of the Colombian government.

Anne Patterson

Gun violence is on the rise in many of our cities today, and illegal gun trafficking from neighboring states is a big part of the problem. We need a coordinated effort to ensure partnership and cooperation with prosecution, community programs and crime prevention. We need leadership from the federal, state and local levels, as well as help from our neighboring states.

Deval Patrick

It just goes to show what a drug trafficking organization, the lengths they will go, to struggle their poison into the United States for one reason, for profit.

John Gilbride

Prostitution is the driving force behind sex trafficking. The demand fuels the industry. The U.S. must address the demand side of the equation if there is going to be success in combating the problem.

Janice Crouse

The Swedish situation is that they banned sex for sale, which we don't think is feasible. It drives it underground, and when it's driven underground, criminality, the trafficking of women, and drugs are under much less scrutiny by the police, because they just don't have the intelligence about what's going on if the women are hidden.

Margo Macdonald

But the vast amount of the testimony was in regard to the historical conspiracy, the working arrangements involved in the cocaine trafficking that was going on.

Leigh Foreman

The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see the signs and think to call the police.

Mira Sorvino

If a victim of human trafficking wanted to escape from her captor there is virtually no social system set up to help her - and of course there is always the fear that if caught the perpetrators will be allowed back on the street again.

Nikitas Kanakis

Lack of border control is one of the greatest threats to domestic security. We need more border patrol agents, we need to use modern technology and build physical walls or fences to seal borders before we can adequately address the problem of illegal aliens, drug trafficking and threats of terrorism. I do not support amnesty for illegal aliens.

Don Stenberg

Narcotics trafficking has spawned a criminal elite that is fighting to control a budget the same size as that presented in Parliament by our minister of finance, but without any of the obligations for debt, employment and services, which is placed on the elected government.

Dr Peter Phillips

Illegal arms dealings, just like drug-trafficking, has the most devastating effects on the lives of most vulnerable members of society.

Lucas Radebe

It hasn't gotten to that point yet. We're working along with the Delaware State Police, so if it's an on-going investigation we'll make sure if it does involve human trafficking to investigate how these women got here.

Ernestine Fobbs

They are known for smuggling illicit drugs, assault, drive-by shooting, homicides, I.D. theft, prostitution activities, robbery, and weapons trafficking.

Ed Kubo