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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

God knows, we don't want prayer.

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.

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

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

The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.