Eric Greitens Quotes
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One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.
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When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.
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You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
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Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
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I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
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I don't think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don't think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.
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I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.
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We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.
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If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.
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My parents were both Democrats and I grew up as a Democrat. Basically I was told that the Democrats were the party that cared about people. I liked people and I cared about them, so I was a Democrat.
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Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.
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I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.
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To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for stadiums.
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God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.
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I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.
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Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
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Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.
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I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.
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Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.
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Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.
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Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.
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If you care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.
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It's very important for us as a group of Navy SEALs, to make sure that the message that we send to the country is that we're ready to serve any commander in chief, the elected head of the armed forces, that the people of the United States elect. That is our mission, that's our duty, as Navy SEALs.