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Erik Prince

(1969) Military Officer

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Erik Prince is a military officer.

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Born: June 6, 1969
Profession: Military Officer

About Erik Prince

American businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military company Blackwater... | Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012 and was chairman of th

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My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Business

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There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.

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I think everybody wanted to help the U.S. government in some way after 9/11.

Government

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I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

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Any time you employ thousands of people, some people do dumb things.

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Afghanistan is an expensive disaster for America.

Afghanistan

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We're very excited about Africa - it can be the breadbasket of the world.

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Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

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We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made…

Generals

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I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country's…

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Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

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I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.

Economics

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Unfortunately, I kind of split between Virginia and living in an airplane. I travel a lot.

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I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

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I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

Farmers

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I don't know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible 'cause that…

America

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I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I…

Enemies

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I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is…

Bureaucracy

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Every individual who has worked for Blackwater in Iraq has previously served in the U.S. military or as a police officer. Many…

Blackwater

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We have a great all-volunteer force, but the fact is that 0.5% of the U.S. population serves in the military, maybe another…

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When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks…

Afghanistan

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Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who…

Iraq

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I'm an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is…

America

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America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too…

America

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I'm not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions.

Believer

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Let's stop trading freedom for the illusion of security.

Cybersecurity

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I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.

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America is a great nation, but it cannot spend blood and treasure endlessly.

America

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I've certainly been mortared and rocketed a few times.

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Our nation has endured and flourished because people of goodwill adapt and innovate productive solutions to our nation's problems - not because…

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We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

America

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I wish we had been doing diplomatic security in Benghazi. I can tell you that Benghazi would not have happened if Blackwater…

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It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

Amazing

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I think the diplomatic-security needs in Iraq were an anomaly. There's never been a bulge of requirements that large ever before.

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For people to mischaracterize my time or ownership of Blackwater as being some great financial bonanza, it was not. It was most…

Being

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I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for…

Blackwater

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Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to…

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My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.

America

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One of the real core competencies of Blackwater, or companies like Blackwater, is we can operate in difficult places without any outside…

Blackwater

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I would rather deal with the vagaries of investing in Africa than in figuring out what the hell else Washington is going…

Africa

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