41 Eric Greitens Quotes for You to Enjoy

Eric Greitens

American Politician

Born: Apr 10, 1974

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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction. Eric Greitens

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When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems. Eric Greitens

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It's oftentimes the case that relief workers, people who've been involved in development projects and foreign assistance, have a real understanding of foreign cultures that the military desperately needs if we're going to be able to work effectively. Eric Greitens

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. Eric Greitens

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. Eric Greitens

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It's really important to have role models, and a lot of the ancients always talked about this. Seneca talked about this, Aristotle talked about this, and in fact, this was my boxing coach's philosophy in college, was that you have to have role models. Eric Greitens

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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. Eric Greitens

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In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth. Eric Greitens

Our firefighters, they show up every day to fight fires. If, God forbid, there's a situation where they have to fight cancer, they shouldn't have to fight bureaucrats to get the care they deserve. Eric Greitens

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I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military. Eric Greitens

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The people who believe in voter intimidation believe that the minute you make a political donation, that you immediately need to turn all your information over to the government. Eric Greitens

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There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that. Eric Greitens

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I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II. Eric Greitens

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People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you'll build a great team. Eric Greitens

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I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear. Eric Greitens

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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty. Eric Greitens

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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

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. Eric Greitens

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I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat. Eric Greitens

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Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets. Eric Greitens

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I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there. Eric Greitens

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