I believe in the value of life. I have fought for that value. I am the only candidate to carry a right to life bill, protecting unborn victims and ensuring that all life should be protected.
— Ryan Zinke
You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.
Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.
The right rules of engagement means giving our forward commanders the authority and flexibility to take the initiative and win. Trust our forward deployed warriors to do their job. Political appointees running the war from Washington is just wrong.
May God bless Montana, God bless America, and God bless the troops who defend her.
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it's despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list.
There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented.
I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.
Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.
I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.
If ISIS strikes, it's going to strike Americans - not Republicans or Democrats. This is not partisan politics.
Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
The quality of our Airmen in Montana coupled with the proven mission excellence of the 120th Airlift Wing, and historical need for assets to fight the devastating forest fires we continue to see in Montana and the Northwest United States, should have mandated the relocation of these assets to Montana.
Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.
We use our land for hunting, fishing, hiking, and to create jobs. Our outdoor economy is a billion dollar economic engine for the state that creates jobs.
The northern border is a different problem set than our southern border. We're not going to put a fence between America and Canada, across Glacier Park. I grew up there. We can use some technological controls. We work with the Canadians more, and there's a lot of property we share, along with tribal lands.
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.
We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.
I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.
Our military sons and daughters that are placed in harm's way deserve the right equipment, the right training, and the right rules of engagement to win decisively on any field of battle.
I look forward to making the Department of Interior and America great again.
I believe in American exceptionalism. As a Navy SEAL, I fought so that I would never have to see my president bow to anyone.
I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.
Radical Islamic terrorists and those who fund it remain a credible threat to America and a clear and present danger to democracy.
To be a Navy SEAL, it's three and a half years training before you're ever put into harm's way the first time.
I would be in support of giving the military commanders more latitude in their rules of engagement rather than be restricted to the point we're tying someone's hands behind their back.
I'm proud of Congress as a body. At the end of the day, we're the people's house, and we should be very mindful that we represent the people.
We often fight wars with our young.
Special ops isn't the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.
The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.
I will work tirelessly to ensure our public lands are managed and preserved in a way that benefits everyone for generations to come.
In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.
We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.
To me, there is no doubt: inaction abroad emboldens actions on the home front. They are related.
I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.
We say to those few who seek to publicize anti-Semitic views that they shall find no safe haven here.
Having too many layers of approval in a dynamic battlefield environment delays our ability to fight and win, especially when troops are engaged in combat.
Americans don't want to see our military become Republican or Democrat. Americans appreciate that our military belongs to all of us.
When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.
Too many of Montana's own have fallen in the line of duty fighting radical Islamic terrorists, like 31-year-old husband and father of four, Blackfeet warrior Army Corporal Tony 'Many Hides' of Great Falls.
If you put our guys in harm's way, you better support them with the right equipment, the right rules of engagement, the right Medevac, the right quick-reaction force.
Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled.
Under our rules of engagement, if I were ISIS, what I would do is collocate my headquarters next to a school or a hospital and ensure that there would be collateral damage. They know our rules of engagement as well as we do. They operate with impunity.
What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.
Putin drops bombs. We drop leaflets.
Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress have proven they will use bait-and-switch tactics to move more unvetted refugees into our communities. This will inevitably put our nation and our citizens at risk for future terrorist attacks.
I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.
The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an extreme proposal, and I won't tolerate it.
Canada has as much or more control of the border than we do. Getting into Mexico is a lot easier than getting into Canada.
