Eric Greitens

“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 care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.”

“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.”

“The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.”

“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.”

“Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.”

“I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.”

“When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.”

“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.”

“Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.”

“After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.”

“Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.”

“Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there's never a clear moment of victory, and even after you've won, you have to watch carefully.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.”

“The more successful Navy SEALs there are, the more glory it reflects on the community and the better it is for our country.”