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.

We can prove that we are in the business of governing responsibly, upholding our rule of law, and giving priority to those immigrants willing to apply legally versus those who leverage our system's loopholes.

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.

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.

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 are not anti-immigration. We are against chain migration, except for the nuclear family. We want a merit-based system that is really based on economic needs.

When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

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.

Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the journey to our border.

Each day I wake up and check the news. Nearly every day it's merely to make sure I did not miss anything wildly controversial. Who said what, what are the implications of that comment, what was the context of what was said? Some days are slow, which is great. We can focus on a particular policy issue or piece of legislation.

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.

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.

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.

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.

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?

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.