Oliver North

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

God knows, we don't want prayer.

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.

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.

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.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

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

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.