I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.

Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.

What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'

Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.

The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.

I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.

The best way to honor the legacy of a person who's passed is to find a way to support the living.

I'm proud to be Jewish.

There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that.

It certainly could be that there are prejudices around. I can only speak to what I have lived, and I have experienced that people have been incredibly welcoming to me as a Jewish Republican.

What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.

The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.

We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.

I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.

To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for stadiums.

We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.

Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.

Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

I don't think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don't think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.

We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.

If you want to start or grow a business in the state of Missouri and hire more people with good jobs, I will be your friend and ally.

I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.

When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'

I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.

We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here through no fault of their own, who have grown up here in America.

Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.