06/04/1992
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"Larry, congratulations."
"We are not in the Middle East to protect oil. We are there to stand up against aggression."
"You can ask, but I don't have to answer whether he was asked."
"It's a tough fight. But I wouldn't have asked those troops to go into harm's way if the fight was not essential to the security of the United States of America."