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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. "
Oliver North
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" God knows, we don't want prayer. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "
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Political
Guy
" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "
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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 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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Know
" 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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Book
" 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
Get
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "
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You
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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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" 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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" 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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" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "
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" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "
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" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "
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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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" 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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Me
" 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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You
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