Eric Greitens Quotes
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You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
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We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.
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Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
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I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.
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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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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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Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
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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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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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Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.
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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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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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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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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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To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for stadiums.
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I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
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Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.
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Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.
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I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.
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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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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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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.