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I have a thick skin.
I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.
Americans can forgive one another.
It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.
Victory looks like no more September 11ths.
We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.
Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.
The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.
I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.
Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.
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.
We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.
Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.
AOC understands how to be famous. It's got to be natural. It's genuine.
The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.
We just need leaders in Congress who are honest with the American people.
Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it's bad for immigrants.
Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.
I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.
Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?
It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
Give the benefit of the doubt to your opponents if they walk back a controversial statement.
We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.
It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.
The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.
Everybody says 'Thank you for your service' and I'll tell you what, veterans really appreciate that.
This life, this purpose, this American spirit that we hold dear - we are not alone. We do it together.
The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.
I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.
When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.
As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.
I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.
Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.
We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.
Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.
We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.
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 should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.
There's bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.