Quotes from Dan Crenshaw

I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.

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.

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

If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea.

Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.

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

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

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.

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.

The president is under no obligation to sign the spending bills that Congress gives to him. And once that happens, once he says no, then you're supposed to negotiate.

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

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.

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 mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.

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.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

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

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

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

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

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.

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.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.