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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform. "