My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.


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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
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Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Miss...
OLIVER NORTH
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th...
OLIVER NORTH
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
OLIVER NORTH
If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter ...
OLIVER NORTH
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of...
OLIVER NORTH
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...
OLIVER NORTH
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser...
OLIVER NORTH
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
OLIVER NORTH
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'w...
OLIVER NORTH
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percen...
OLIVER NORTH
The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...
OLIVER NORTH
Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lif...
OLIVER NORTH
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
OLIVER NORTH
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
OLIVER NORTH
What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
GARY NORTH
Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionabl...
GARY NORTH
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid fo...
GARY NORTH
Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
GARY NORTH
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's coco...
OLIVER NORTH
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the takin...
DUDLEY NORTH
Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
ALEX NORTH
There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
ALEX NORTH
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the...
ALEX NORTH
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
ALEX NORTH
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
ALEX NORTH
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of ...
ALEX NORTH
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commer...
ALEX NORTH
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impos...
ALEX NORTH
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
ALEX NORTH
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law...
GARY NORTH
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to...
LORD NORTH
Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and...
NOLAN NORTH
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration ...
OLIVER NORTH
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goa...
OLIVER NORTH
I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em...
NOLAN NORTH
I don't think it makes any difference.
ANDY NORTH
I wouldn't say either of us hit the ball fabulously, but we hit some good shots when we needed to. T...
ANDY NORTH
Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot.
ANDY NORTH
Go out and do what he did.
ANDY NORTH