Erik Prince

Entrepreneurship made America great. ”

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. ”

Developing good investments in Africa is by and large the best for the people of Africa that have a job, that have electricity, that might have clean water, that might have those things that we in the West take horribly for granted. ”

Training for any difficult job is essential. ”

I live in Loudoun County, and the counties surrounding Washington, D.C., have the highest per-capita income in the country. Not because they create wealth, but because they suck wealth from the rest of the country, and that system needs to be shaken up. ”

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

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

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place. ”

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. ”

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