100 Quotes by Erik Prince

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.

I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is so much spending and so much bloat and so much bureaucracy that it actually hinders them from having a lot of the mission accomplishments that they should.

I think everybody wanted to help the U.S. government in some way after 9/11.

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

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

If the Chinese are sensitive about anything, it's not having their people die.

Some of the most dedicated, most passionate people I've ever met have been part of the United States armed forces.