Quotes by Oliver L. North

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea.

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.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)

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.

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

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys.