Oliver North

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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