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I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence, and so you want me to say something bad about Donald Trump, or bad about John McCain or bad about anyone else, i'm not going to do it.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday.
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I think Hillary Clinton's nomination and I think Donald Trump's nomination, I think the media played decisive roles in both of them.
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I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don't want Donald to be the nominee.
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Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.
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Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.
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I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.
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I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.
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What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
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ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.
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When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.
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I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. 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.
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In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
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Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.
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You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.
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At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go.
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I would note that the scripture tells us, you shall know them by their fruit. We see lots of campaign conservatives. But if we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
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What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.
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Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.
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