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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.Ted Cruz
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.Ted Cruz
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.Ted Cruz
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.Ted Cruz
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?Ted Cruz
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.Ted Cruz
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.Ted Cruz
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.Ted Cruz
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.Ted Cruz
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.Ted Cruz
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First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.Ted Cruz
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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.Ted Cruz
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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.'Ted Cruz
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.Ted Cruz
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Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.Ted Cruz
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.Ted Cruz
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.Ted Cruz
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage, ' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.Ted Cruz
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.Ted Cruz
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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.Ted Cruz
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back! ' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.Ted Cruz
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.Ted Cruz
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.Ted Cruz
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.Ted Cruz
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?Ted Cruz
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.Ted Cruz
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.Ted Cruz
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.Ted Cruz
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There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.Ted Cruz
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.Ted Cruz
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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.Ted Cruz
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.Ted Cruz