Eric Greitens Quotes
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The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.
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The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
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I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.
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Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.
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Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.
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We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here through no fault of their own, who have grown up here in America.
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Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.
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What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'
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As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
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Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
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The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.
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There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that.
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The best way to honor the legacy of a person who's passed is to find a way to support the living.
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Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we're tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.
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I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.
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Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.
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People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.
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The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.
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When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
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The more successful Navy SEALs there are, the more glory it reflects on the community and the better it is for our country.
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For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
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Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.
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I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.