Oliver North

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

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

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

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.

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.