Ted Cruz Quotes
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When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.
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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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We should not give $500 million to a corrupt organization that is selling unborn children's body parts.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.