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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "