Quotes from Dan Crenshaw

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.

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

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

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.

Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Americans can forgive one another.

Each day I wake up and check the news. Nearly every day it's merely to make sure I did not miss anything wildly controversial. Who said what, what are the implications of that comment, what was the context of what was said? Some days are slow, which is great. We can focus on a particular policy issue or piece of legislation.

Rebuilding the civic fabric of Central American countries is the only long-term solution to stemming the flow of illegal migration, and without Mexico as a willing partner, the U.S. will continue to fight an impossibly uphill battle.

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.

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

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.

Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the journey to our border.

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.

I have a thick skin.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

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.

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.

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.

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

There's bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.

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