Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Crenshaw - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

Veterans tend to want to be ultra-prepared. They want to know everything they possibly can before running for Congress. That's great... but don't undersell yourself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Victory looks like no more September 11ths.

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

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

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

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.

Whether it's military resources or whatever it is doesn't matter. We need more detention facilities, more immigration judges, we need the ability to adjudicate these claims right on the spot without releasing people. If they don't have a credible claim of persecution and the vast majority do not, they get deported immediately.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

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.

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

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.