We have done great work for the U.S. government.

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

The Janjaweed is a truly unfettered bully. No one has stood up to them. If they were met by a mobile quick reaction force of African Union soldiers, the Janjaweed would quickly learn their habits were not sustainable.

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

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

I've done dumb things.

I'm a strong supporter of the military.

I'm a business guy just trying to make - provide great services to the customers that need us.

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

Limited government is best.

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

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

The video game industry is constantly evolving. The sheer creativity matched with cutting-edge technologies gives me the comfort that innovation is alive and well in America.

Training for any difficult job is essential.

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

I will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most.

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

You pretty much remove the entire political texture from Blackwater when you come to China. What they look at is our 100 per cent success rate.

If the Chinese are sensitive about anything, it's not having their people die.

C'mon now, I'm not going to make it easy for the terrorists to get me.

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

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

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

Some of the most dedicated, most passionate people I've ever met have been part of the United States armed forces.

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

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes motorists do irrational things.

The greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity is not al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran or even China. It's an idea, the idea that we can spend our way out of our problems without tightening our belt and paring down the very bloated government.

I built Blackwater to stay connected to the SEAL teams and to serve that whole community.

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

I'm an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is a professional soldier that works in the pay of a foreign army. I'm an American working for America.

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

Some people will always hate the name Blackwater. They might not like me.

I loved being a SEAL. I loved working with those kind of guys and a sense of mission, and Blackwater was started to continue that sense of mission.

I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is so much spending and so much bloat and so much bureaucracy that it actually hinders them from having a lot of the mission accomplishments that they should.

I wish we had been doing diplomatic security in Benghazi. I can tell you that Benghazi would not have happened if Blackwater were on the job there.

I like the fact that Donald Trump has been in the private sector. I like that he's had to make a payroll. I like that he's had to do projects.

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

The establishment, rigged, cozy system inside the beltway is not America.

Blackwater's work with the CIA began when we provided specialized instructors and facilities that the Agency lacked. In the years that followed, the company became a virtual extension of the CIA because we were asked time and again to carry out dangerous missions, which the Agency either could not or would not do in-house.

I think faith gives us a structure around which to try to organize our lives. I'm also a big believer, and very thankful that there's forgiveness.

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

I'm no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain.

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

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

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