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.
CHRIS KYLEI don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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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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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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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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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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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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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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Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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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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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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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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