Oliver L North Famous Quotes



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

"There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs."

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

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

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)

"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."

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

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys.


Oliver L North Quotations






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We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
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