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

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

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Everybody says 'Thank you for your service' and I'll tell you what, veterans really appreciate that.

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.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

Americans can forgive one another.

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.

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

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.

As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.

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

I have a thick skin.

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

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

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

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.

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.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.

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

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

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

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

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

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.

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

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.