Dan Crenshaw Quotes

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

The truth is liberals are using every tactic possible to drown the Trump presidency.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on the manipulation of group identity in America as a means to political power.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.