Oliver North

“Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”

“Writers are storytellers. So are readers.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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