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.
CHRIS KYLEEvery 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.
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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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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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You’re not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There’s also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
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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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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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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 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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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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