Ted Cruz Quotes
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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 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 are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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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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One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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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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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
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I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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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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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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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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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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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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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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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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We should not give $500 million to a corrupt organization that is selling unborn children's body parts.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.
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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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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.