Eric Greitens Quotes
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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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The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.
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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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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.
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When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'
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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'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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One of the things that I've found in everything that I've done: People want leaders to create a sense of direction and to lead and to act.
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You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.
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I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.
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When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.
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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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