Private Military Quotes

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.

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

This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.

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.

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

It does not make sense to privatise the military. Proponents of privatisation often argue that it encourages customer responsiveness... For the most part, those who interact with military contractors do not do so voluntarily; there is no market where they can choose to be integrated by a contractor from the United States, or by some other provider. Indeed, the incentives are perverse. The incentives of the contractor are to minimise his costs, and those incentives do not take into account the nation’s broad range of public objectives … the Government becomes so dependent on their [contractors] services that it’s almost impossible to get rid of them

Once Africans realise we can just fight and get paid for it, we can do that and still provide for ourselves and our families and countries? We're going to flood the market.

No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can't stand the name of Blackwater, that's fine, I'll never really win them over anyway. And I really don't care.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.

I will continue to push for solutions to eliminate reliance on hired guns to provide security in war zones.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.