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" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "
Oliver North
Military
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" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "
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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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" 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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" 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
" 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
War
" 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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War
" 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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" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "
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Writers
Readers
" God knows, we don't want prayer. "
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Knows
Prayer
" 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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American
Great
People
" 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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Question
Ask
People
" In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot. "
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Action
Best
Choices
" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "
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Me
Long
Lady
" 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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Safety
Responsible
Me
" 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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People
Media
Job
" 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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Dying
People
Energy
" 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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Nothing
I Believe
Change
" 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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Today
Phones
Cell Phones
" 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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Know
Uniform
Only
" 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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Win
Two
Tell
" 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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" I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. "
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People
Well
Who
" 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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Government
Good
World
" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "
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Truth
Different
Input
" 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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Got
Work
People
" 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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Need
Strong
People
" 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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Spring
People
Better
" 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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Never
Why
Know
" 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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Government
American
Real