Famous quotes by Soldiers

"We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I am much more intelligent than you think"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"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!"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that"

Audie Murphy, Soldier

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version!"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I was authorized to do everything that I did"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it"

Oliver North, Soldier

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

Oliver North, Soldier

"I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"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"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again"

Audie Murphy, Soldier

"That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves"

Chester W. Nimitz, Soldier

"God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless"

Chester W. Nimitz, Soldier

"When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue"

Chester W. Nimitz, Soldier

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