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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. "
Oliver North
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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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" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. "
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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. "
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" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "
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" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "
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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 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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" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "
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Young
" 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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Doing
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" God knows, we don't want prayer. "
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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. "
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Two
Tell
" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "
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Different
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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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Accept
Here
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Great
People
" 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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Goals
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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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Excitement
Life
" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "
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