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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Commander-In-Chief

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "

" 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. "

" God knows, we don't want prayer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "