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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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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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United States Senator
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Rafael Edward Cruz
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If the Republican Party stands for individual liberty, if we defend the Bill of Rights, if we stand for keeping this country safe, then we deserve to win, and if we don't, we deserve to lose. It shouldn't be - it's not just a game of blue team/red team. It is actually about making a difference in people's lives.
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Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.
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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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By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.
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Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.
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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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The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.
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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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Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?
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