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Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.
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I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.
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I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.
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I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.
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I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction over, including the courts. To do that, we would need an amendment to the Constitution.
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I look Italian, but I act Irish.
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There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.
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I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.
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When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.
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I didn't run for office to make friends.
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Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
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The truth is our friend.
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I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.
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There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
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We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.
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People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
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Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.
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An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material such as tobacco.
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If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.
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Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
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What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.
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I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.
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I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.
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Am I happy with the choice? No I'm not. But I'm going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.