Dan Crenshaw

Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it's bad for immigrants.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

If you get your teeth cleaned on Instagram live, it shows that you're just out of touch. That doesn't make you relatable or cool. It just makes you weird.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

Victory looks like no more September 11ths.

You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.

We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.

We just need leaders in Congress who are honest with the American people.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don't turn the mission around.

We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.

AOC understands how to be famous. It's got to be natural. It's genuine.

You know they've come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.

The Green New Deal is for elitists who live in their high rises in New York City and see a dirty world around them because they're in New York City. I said New York City can pass a Green New Deal... Why not try it? Why not try it?

When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private insurance... it's very obvious to people that they've gone in a radical direction that will not work.

We should get young people to be more concerned about our debt and point out to them that promising them more all the time is a completely unsustainable way of being and that it's a lie to say that the top one percent are going to pay for it.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

It's OK to say whatever you want. It's a free country. And it's also OK for the rest of us to say 'We don't like what you're saying.' That's actually our job as members of Congress.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

Whether it's military resources or whatever it is doesn't matter. We need more detention facilities, more immigration judges, we need the ability to adjudicate these claims right on the spot without releasing people. If they don't have a credible claim of persecution and the vast majority do not, they get deported immediately.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.

I have a thick skin.

I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.

When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that's inciting violence.

When you call somebody a Nazi, you can make the argument that you're inciting violence and here's how: As a country, we all agree that Nazis are bad. We actually invaded an entire continent to defeat the Nazis.

This is the way that I like to phrase it: we want to focus on 100% of the problem, and you can only focus on 100% of global emissions if you have technology that is exportable, clean, reliable, and cheap.

The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

I have always disliked it when politicians start pandering to veterans and telling us how bad we have it and that if we just vote for them that they will fix all of our problems.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.

Veterans tend to want to be ultra-prepared. They want to know everything they possibly can before running for Congress. That's great... but don't undersell yourself.

Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on is totalitarianism - you have no choice.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

In 2012, I got hit by an IED in Afghanistan.

I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.

The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.