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Oliver North Quotes

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Oliver Laurence “Ollie” North (born ) is a former United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, author, and host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News. As a National Security Council staff member under President Ronald Reagan, he formulated part of a plan involving the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran and diverting the proceeds to Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua.

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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

I honestly answered every question put to me during the Iran Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me something, I was not going to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

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

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver North (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.