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" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "
Oliver North
Bad
You
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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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" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "
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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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" 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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" I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. "
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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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" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "
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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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" 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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" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "
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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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" 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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