Oliver North Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

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.

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

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

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

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

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

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.

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 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 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.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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.

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

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

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

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

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.