Dan Crenshaw Quotes

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

I don’t attack people. I attack ideas. And some very good people can have some very bad ideas.

Somewhere in this we got into impugning people's character and motives if we didn't like their ideas. We gotta get back to just debating ideas.

I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

One may criticize even what one reveres.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

We don’t need to ban bad ideas. We just need to criticize bad ideas.

When I am contradicted it arouses my attention, not my wrath. I move toward the man who contradicts me: he is instructing me. The cause of truth ought to be common to both of us.

If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.

When candidate Donald Trump said things that I didn't necessarily agree with, I would call him on it.