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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. "
Oliver North
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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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" 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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" 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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" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "
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" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "
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" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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
" I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. "
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Support
" 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 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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Ask
People
" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "
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Lady
" 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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America
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" I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character. "
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Political
Guy
" Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. "
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" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "
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Trusting
Legal
" 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
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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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War
You
" 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. "
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You
View
Back
" 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
" 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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" 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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" 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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" I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. "
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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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Different
Input
" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "
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You
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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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Work
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" There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. "
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