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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. "
Oliver North
Safety
Responsible
Me
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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. "
Oliver North
Need
Strong
People
" I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. "
Oliver North
Story
America
Think
" I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq. "
Oliver North
People
Media
Job
" 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. "
Oliver North
Wife
You
Back
" In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform. "
Oliver North
Know
American
Book
" 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. "
Oliver North
Know
Uniform
Only
" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "
Oliver North
Military
Political
Guy
" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "
Oliver North
Bad
You
Ugly
" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "
Oliver North
Money
Resistance
Support
" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "
Oliver North
Me
Long
Lady
" I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. "
Oliver North
Will
Accept
Here
" 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. "
Oliver North
Information
Go
You
" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "
Oliver North
Bill Clinton
Commander-In-Chief
Bill
" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "
Oliver North
Everything
Did
Authorized
" There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. "
Oliver North
Leadership
Will
Know
" I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. "
Oliver North
You
Fact
Kids
" 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. "
Oliver North
Children
Think
World
" 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. "
Oliver North
Nothing
I Believe
Change
" I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. "
Oliver North
United States
Years
America
" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "
Oliver North
Truth
Different
Input
" 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. "
Oliver North
Women
War
You
" The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. "
Oliver North
America
Blind
Eye
" 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. "
Oliver North
Spring
People
Better
" 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. "
Oliver North
Service
High School
War
" 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. "
Oliver North
People
Goals
War
" 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. "
Oliver North
Got
Work
People
" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "
Oliver North
Seen
War
World War II
" Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people. "
Oliver North
Dying
People
Energy
" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "
Oliver North
Remember
Vietnam
Young
" 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. "
Oliver North
Need
Remember
War