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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. "

Oliver North

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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. "

Oliver North

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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. "

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

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" If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history. "

" 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 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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" I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" God knows, we don't want 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "