47 Erik Prince Quotes for You to Enjoy

Erik Prince

American Businessman

Born: Jun 6, 1969

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I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens. Erik Prince

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The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure. Erik Prince

Every individual who has worked for Blackwater in Iraq has previously served in the U.S. military or as a police officer. Many were highly decorated. And from the beginning, these individuals have been bound by detailed contracts that ensure intensive government direction and control. Erik Prince

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We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box. Erik Prince

C'mon now, I'm not going to make it easy for the terrorists to get me. Erik Prince

Me Easy Make Terrorists Get Going Now

I live in Loudoun County, and the counties surrounding Washington, D.C., have the highest per-capita income in the country. Not because they create wealth, but because they suck wealth from the rest of the country, and that system needs to be shaken up. Erik Prince

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When someone needs copper, or wood or an ag product, and they invest capital somewhere to make that happen, and people get jobs from that, and that good gets introduced to the world stage and it gets traded and moved, the whole world benefits. Erik Prince

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I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily. Erik Prince

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Developing good investments in Africa is by and large the best for the people of Africa that have a job, that have electricity, that might have clean water, that might have those things that we in the West take horribly for granted. Erik Prince

I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right. Erik Prince

I'm a strong supporter of the military. Erik Prince

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It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country. Erik Prince

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Sometimes motorists do irrational things. Erik Prince

Sometimes Irrational Things

I will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most. Erik Prince

Government Will Support Most Reduce Size Whoever

After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward. Erik Prince

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized. Erik Prince

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I built Blackwater to stay connected to the SEAL teams and to serve that whole community. Erik Prince

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When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only a few hundred C.I.A. and Special Operations personnel, backed by American air power. Later, when the United States transitioned to conventional Pentagon stability operations, this success was reversed. Erik Prince

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Afghanistan is an expensive disaster for America. Erik Prince

Disaster America Afghanistan Expensive

Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan's long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency. Erik Prince

Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who visit, the question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq. Instead, as the CEO of Blackwater, the urgent question was how the company I head could perform the duties asked of us by the U.S. State Department. Erik Prince

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