MJ Hegar Quotes

MJ Hegar

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 16, 1976

We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.

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Texas kind of operates as if we're our own little country.

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The biggest problem in our government is that even those people who are there that are good and well-intended, there's too many people in positions to write legislation who have never experienced the challenges of regular people.

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There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

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I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I'm a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I'm a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.

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I think it's very clear to be able to be a working-class mom of two and veteran and to be able to take on an entrenched, establishment, dark-money-backed Washington lackey, that I'm gonna have to be able to excite people and gain momentum and gain attention and get people excited and energized.

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Ted Cruz cut his teeth politically in Texas on disrupting the Republican establishment, and Texans love a fighter. It's the same thing that has made me successful is that when people look at me, they see a fighter, somebody who takes on the establishment, who isn't intimidated, and is willing to kick through doors.

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Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

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I am for the Second Amendment, but I am for common-sense gun legislation.

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We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.

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With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

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You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.

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I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't in combat. I had friends that were Marines that were taken to fight the enemy. They weren't just firing in defense of their position.

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I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.

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I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

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I grew up in a place that didn't have any Democrats, or if there were Democrats they weren't talking about it.

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I would argue that growing up in a Republican area actually makes me a lot more of a viable candidate than someone who is going to demonize and alienate someone who used to be a Republican or used to vote Republican.

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I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.

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Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

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In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.

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