Top 33 MJ Hegar Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Texans deserve a senator who represents our values, strength, courage, independence – putting Texas first.

I didn’t get a pilot slot my first time trying. We Texans don’t give up easy, and everything we’ve accomplished is just the beginning.

I’m kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

In the military, we are thrown into a melting pot of cultures and communities and we disagree a lot on how to accomplish the mission, but when it comes time to get the work done, we focus our energy on accomplishing the mission.

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

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

When I was in my third tour in Afghanistan, I was shot down. I was injured to the point where I couldn’t fly anymore, so I looked into what ground jobs I could do that fulfilled me as an adrenaline junkie and, more importantly, utilized my experience.

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.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I’m fighting for.

I’m a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?

I’m a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.

We’ve got to tell our stories to influence culture, and we have to get more people elected who have faced challenges like domestic violence, working minimum-wage jobs, wondering how to get food on the table… regular people.

It’s important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.

We need to have leaders that aren’t afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

I think we have some amazing leaders. But then we have some leaders who turn a blind eye to things that contribute negatively to a really difficult culture for women.

Many don’t think that there are women serving in combat roles. Others think that women who do serve in combat shrink in fear when the bullets fly. I know differently.

We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office.

The people who are sending our men and women in uniform into conflict need to understand that there are some things worth fighting for, but also understand the high cost of war.

I am a combat veteran and a working mom and a fighter, and I’ve already been successful taking on the dark forces in D.C.

I’ve voted in a Republican primary in the past. That’s something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we don’t register as Republicans or Democrats. We vote in whichever primary we think it’s more critical at the time.

I have long-since said that working… together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn’t mean compromising your values.

I’m not a violent person, but I’m a capable person. I’m never looking for a fight. But I’m always ready for one.

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.

I think women are sick of the men in office telling us they are going to protect our rights and fight for us.

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.

A lot of people ask why I don’t fly for the airlines now. It’s because of the rebel in me that doesn’t like rules.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

In the military, there’s a sense of camaraderie that can sometimes make people bystanders. There were a lot of really good men that I served with, but many of them watched me get discriminated against while looking the other way.

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.