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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.' "

" 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. "

" I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. "

" And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was authorized to do everything that I did. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Writers are storytellers. So are readers. "

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

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