"Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief."
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"I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again."
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"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."
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"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it."
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"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
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"I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme."
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"President Reagan didn't always know what he knew."
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"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."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"Writers are storytellers. So are readers."
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"I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series."
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"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."
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"And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen"
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse."
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"We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon."
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