Quotes from Dan Crenshaw

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

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

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.

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

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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

We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.

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.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

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

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