"Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying."
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"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."
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"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"
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"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."
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"An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy."
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"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."
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"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"
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"We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true."
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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."
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"A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win."
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"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
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"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."
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"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."
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"God knows, we don't want prayer."
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"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."
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"I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied."
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"History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter."
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"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"
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"As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me."
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"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."
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