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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.Oliver North
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Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.Oliver North
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.Oliver North
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Whoever has the sword will have the earth.Oliver North
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An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.Oliver North
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President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.Oliver North
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.Oliver North
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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.Oliver North
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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.Oliver North
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.Oliver North
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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.Oliver North
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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.Oliver North