10/10/1989
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"I fully understand there is deep concern among the American people about whether or not we can win, the anxiety that a lot of our citizens feel."
"You know, how come we've got 11,000? So I've asked Chertoff to find out, what are you going to do with them? The taxpayers aren't interested in 11,000 trailers just sitting there. Do something with th..."
"If I didn't think we would succeed, I would pull our troops out. I cannot look mothers and dads in the eye... I can't ask this good Marine to go into harm's way, if I didn't believe, one, we're going ..."
"It's time to get a government in place that can start leading this nation and listening to the will of the people."