Eric Greitens

Politician

1974-04-10

Quotes by Eric Greitens

• The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

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• Across the globe, even in the world's worst places, people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that honored the people they had lost.

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• Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

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• Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

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• Across the globe, even in the world's worst places, people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that honored the people they had lost.

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• The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

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

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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.

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• Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we're tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.

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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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• Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

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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.

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• Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

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• We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.

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