Money Quote by Oliver North

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

— Edwin Meese

Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.

— David Dellinger

Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to…

— Ann Coulter

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

— Bianca Jagger

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

— Rudy Giuliani

The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.

— Jamal Khashoggi

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista…

— Bianca Jagger

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

— Bianca Jagger

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer

The ayatollah sees his economy being crippled. The ayatollah sees that there are 50 percent fewer exports of oil. He sees the currency going…

— Joe Biden

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

— A. P. Herbert