Oliver North Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.”

“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.”

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

“I was authorized to do everything that I did.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”