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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.
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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 was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, Here are the facts, here are the evidence.And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.
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The principles Donald Trump is focused on are exactly the right principles: more choice, more competition, lower costs, lower premiums.
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President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win rate since Harry Truman. Average historically for the last 50 years is about 70 percent.
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On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.
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He has attempted to muddy the waters, but I think anyone that watched the battle that we had - you know, there was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it, where there was a battle over amnesty. And some chose, like Sen. Marco Rubio, to stand with Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and support a massive amnesty plan.
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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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I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary [Clinton]. They believed Donald [Trump] was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat.
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One of the things we've seen here is how easy it is for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to get distracted from dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. They won't even call it by its name.
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In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.
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What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.
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Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.
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One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.
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One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
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ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.
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Obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had.
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Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?
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