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The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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Rafael Edward Cruz
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The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.
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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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Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.
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You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.
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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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Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.
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The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.
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In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.
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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 will fight to defend liberty.
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