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" A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win. "
Oliver North
Win
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" We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals. "
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" Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. "
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" The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. "
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" God knows, we don't want prayer. "
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" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "
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" In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option. "
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" And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II. "
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You
" When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. "
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" In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. "
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Think
World
" Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. "
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Create
Excitement
Life
" We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that. "
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People
Better
" I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. "
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Will
Accept
Here
" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "
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Resistance
Support
" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "
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" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "
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Bill Clinton
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" I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. "
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" As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me. "
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Responsible
Me
" I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again. "
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You
View
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" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "
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You
Ugly
" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "
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Different
Input
" If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history. "
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" Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had. "
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" The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses. "
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" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "
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" I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy. "
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" The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. "
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American
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" It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities. "
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" My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that. "
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Wife
You
Back
" All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service. "
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