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 am not a fan of politics.
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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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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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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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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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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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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I am not a fan of politics.
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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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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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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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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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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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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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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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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 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 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 is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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 not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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