100 Quotes by Erik Prince

We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.

I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can't stand the name of Blackwater, that's fine, I'll never really win them over anyway. And I really don't care.

We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

Any systems can always be made better.

I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country's national interest.

The Janjaweed is a truly unfettered bully. No one has stood up to them. If they were met by a mobile quick reaction force of African Union soldiers, the Janjaweed would quickly learn their habits were not sustainable.