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.
— Dan Crenshaw
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.
In 2012, I got hit by an IED in Afghanistan.
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.
Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.
We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.
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.
Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it's bad for immigrants.
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.
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.
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.
It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.
Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.
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.
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.
It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.
The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.
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.
We are not anti-immigration. We are against chain migration, except for the nuclear family. We want a merit-based system that is really based on economic needs.
I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.
I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.
Victory looks like no more September 11ths.
We just need leaders in Congress who are honest with the American people.
We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.
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?
The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.
The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.
I have a thick skin.
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.
The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.
I spent a whole career infiltrating places.
I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.
Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.
Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.
I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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.
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.
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.
AOC understands how to be famous. It's got to be natural. It's genuine.
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.
If you're criticizing Israel, but you're doing it in a way that implies that the Jewish people in America have a dual loyalty, that's anti-Semitism. It's more than just criticizing 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.
The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.
