Quotes from Oliver North

I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.

If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.

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.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

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.

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.

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

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

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

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

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

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.

In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

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.

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

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

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.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace. — MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan

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

For better or worse, most people's lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected

My tattered old Webster's defines hero as a legendary figure . . . endowed with great strength and ability . . . an illustrious warrior . . . a person possessing great courage. There's another important characteristic of heroes: they place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.