 Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. |
| I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. |
| I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. |
| I was authorized to do everything that I did. |
| I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. |
| And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. |
| 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. |
| In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform. |
| I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. |
| I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well. |
| God knows, we don't want prayer. |
| Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. |
| I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. |
| And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II. |
| I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. |
| In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. |
| Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. |
| 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 would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. |
| 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. |
