The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
CHRIS KYLEThere’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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I really don’t care what people think of me. I’ve got my family. I’ve got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don’t go around thumping people.
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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.
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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It’s about being a man. And it’s about love as well as hate.
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I’m just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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What wounded veteran’s don’t need is sympathy. They need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
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I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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It’s funny – sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can’t really be there for the people they love. I’ve felt it myself.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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I don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.
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