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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 think there are a couple of key lessons that come from Judaism that shaped my life. One of them is the idea we have a duty to repair the world, and all of us should play a role in our lives in trying to repair the world and to make the world better for the next generation.
Eric Greitens
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In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.
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Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.
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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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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
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Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
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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.
Eric Greitens
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Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.
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We've already seen other candidates set up these secretive super PACs where they don't take any responsibility for what they're funding... because that's how the game has always been played. I've been very proud to tell people, 'I'm stepping forward, and you can see every single one of our donors.'
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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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Ask yourself, how can I learn from the people around me. Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.
Eric Greitens -
So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.
Eric Greitens
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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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I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.
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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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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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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.
Eric Greitens
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I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.
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It certainly could be that there are prejudices around. I can only speak to what I have lived, and I have experienced that people have been incredibly welcoming to me as a Jewish Republican.
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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.
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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.
Eric Greitens