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.
CHRIS KYLEAfter I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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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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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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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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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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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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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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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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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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There’s no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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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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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
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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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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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In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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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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I did want to be the top sniper.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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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.
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