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My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

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

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

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

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

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

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.

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

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

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

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.

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

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

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

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

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.

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

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

God knows, we don't want prayer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.

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

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.