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“You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.”
“What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'”
“I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.”
“We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.”
“I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.”
“Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.”
“I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.”
“I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.”
“When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.”
“I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.”
“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.”
“We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.”
“The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.”
“Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.”
“Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.”
“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.”
“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.”