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" God knows, we don't want prayer. "
Oliver North
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "
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" 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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" The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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You
" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "
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Long
Lady
" What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood. "
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World
" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "
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Trusting
Legal
" One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. "
Oliver North
American
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People
" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "
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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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I Believe
Change
" As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me. "
Oliver North
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Me
" 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
" 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. "
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People
Energy
" A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win. "
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Tell
" 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. "
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" 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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Here
" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "
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" 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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" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "
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" The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. "
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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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