Dan Crenshaw Quotes

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

We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.

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

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

There are a lot of veterans out there who would not think their wounds would be the source of poor jokes in bad taste to a hysterically laughing audience.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

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.

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

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.

Victory looks like no more September 11ths.

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.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

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

When you say ‘never forget’ to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

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.

Politicians should aim for higher discourse, the media should report context instead of seeking to inflame the public, and the public should not reward bad behavior nor engage in it on social media.

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

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

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

The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.

I want you to say ‘Never Forget’ because when you say ‘Never Forget’ you’re thanking that veteran in a different way. You’re allowing them to be thankful for the idea for the fact that as an American you’re in it with them. We’re in it together and we don’t forget together.

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.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

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.

Voters have consistently brought up the topic of ‘endless wars’ and demands to ‘bring the troops home’ to me since I ran for office. It’s not a left-right issue, either: Both sides question our military presence abroad.

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

As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You know you don’t want to see somebody in that kind of position to the point where they’re actually putting out a cry for help on social media. That’s not a good place to be in.

Even if we were able to agree on an ideal set of immigration laws, enforcing such laws in the face of hundreds of thousands of cases is impossible in practice.

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.

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.

As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding ‘yes,’ and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?

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

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.

For those of us living in Texas and other border states, the reality of an open and unsecured border is a part of everyday life.

I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.

We can prove that we are in the business of governing responsibly, upholding our rule of law, and giving priority to those immigrants willing to apply legally versus those who leverage our system’s loopholes.

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.

As a long-time supporter of Israel, I will ensure that our alliance does not waver, and that America continues to support Israeli security, advocate for her on the international stage, and contain the threat from Iran and terrorism across the region.

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.