Politician

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

Americans can forgive one another.

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.

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.

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

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.