You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.
— Eric Greitens
Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.
The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.
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.
Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.
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.
Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.
Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.
We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.
I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
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.
Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
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.
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.
The best way to honor the legacy of a person who's passed is to find a way to support the living.
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.
When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
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.
Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.
When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'
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.
If you want to start or grow a business in the state of Missouri and hire more people with good jobs, I will be your friend and ally.
We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.
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.
Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
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.
Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.
The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.
What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.
There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that.
I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.
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.
We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.
Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.
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.
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.
In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.
Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.
To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for stadiums.
Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.
Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.
Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.
I'm proud to be Jewish.
I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.
