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1. In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they’ve got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what’s been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.
2. I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
3. One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television’s cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
4. 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.
5. The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was ‘Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.’ We need to keep that to mind.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. We’ve got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that’s not getting better. It’s getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it’s quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
9. There’s the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
10. 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.
11. I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
12. 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.
13. We’ve been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic — and necessary — goals.
14. I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
15. My mom told me a long time ago, ‘Never get in a fight with a lady.’
16. I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
17. I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
18. I don’t think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
19. And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
20. 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.