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.
Dan Crenshaw
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.
We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.
When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.
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.
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.
I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.
I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.
You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.
There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals - economic prosperity, better health care and education, etc. - are the same. We just don't share the same vision of how to achieve them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
Victory looks like no more September 11ths.
The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
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.
Everybody says 'Thank you for your service' and I'll tell you what, veterans really appreciate that.
Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.
Houston's been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.
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.
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.
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.
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?
AOC understands how to be famous. It's got to be natural. It's genuine.
The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.
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.
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.
We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.
We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?
It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.
This life, this purpose, this American spirit that we hold dear - we are not alone. We do it together.
As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.
I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.
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.
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.
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.
It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.
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.
