Oliver North Quotes

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• Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

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  People, Dying, Easy

  Oliver North, Bob Hamer (2015). “Counterfeit Lies”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Feet, Lawyer, Lord

  "Trusting 'in the Lord and a Good Lawyer'". Newsweek, December 08, 1986.

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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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  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

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  Meaningful, Life Is, Easy

  Oliver North, Bob Hamer (2015). “Counterfeit Lies”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that
  aren't true.

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  Lying, Don't Lie

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• Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

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  Sports, Hero, Athlete

  "True Heroes Place Themselves at Risk for Benefit of Others Oliver North" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

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  Government, Thank God, Terrorist

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

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  Fighting, Winning, Two

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• President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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  Knowledge, President, President Reagan

  Oliver North (2013). “Under Fire: An American Story”, p.24, Post Hill Press

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• The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

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  Average, Years, Criminals

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• 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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  Iran, People, Want

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

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  Country, Veterans Day, War

  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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

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  Ugly, Iran Contra, Good The Bad And The Ugly

  "Iran-contra hearings: ;I came here to tell you the truth’; The Colonel states his case: country and orders above all". www.nytimes.com. 1987.

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• I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

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  Differences, Decision, Difficult

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• We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

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  Needs, Defense, Lines

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• 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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  Phones, Cells, Rely Upon

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• 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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  Atrocities Committed, Caught, One Thing

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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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  Fall, Guy, Ashamed

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• God knows, we don't want prayer.

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  Prayer, Want, Praying

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• 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.

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  Country, Veterans Day, Teacher

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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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  Pregnancy, Order, Years

  Oliver North, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1987). “Taking the stand: the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North”, Pocket

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• History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

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  War, Littles, Too Much

  "Common Sense:The U.N. Fails Freedom — Again" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2006.

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• I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

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  Country, Thinking, Punishment

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• There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

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  Children, Drug, Unyielding

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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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  Country, War, Men

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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