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" I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. "

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" 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. "

" A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win. "

" 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. "

" I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. "

" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "

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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. "

" I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "

" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "

" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "

" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "

" 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. "

" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "

" 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. "