ROBERT MCFARLANE

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

The word that comes closest to describing him for me is fanatic.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

... too emotionally strung out.

Do the American people really want their President ... to have no other option than to go to war or do nothing?

My instructions were, "You don't lie. You put your own interpretation on the truth.

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

Everybody in Afghanistan ought to know we’re coming in and hells coming with us.

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.

Everybody in Afghanistan ought to know we’re coming in and hells coming with us.

Do the American people really want their President ... to have no other option than to go to war or do nothing?

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

The word that comes closest to describing him for me is fanatic.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

My instructions were, "You don't lie. You put your own interpretation on the truth.

... too emotionally strung out.