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To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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Rafael Edward Cruz
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We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.
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We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.
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On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.
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If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.
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Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.
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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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Political correctness is bad.
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If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign.
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The judgment that every voter is making of every one of us [running for presidency] who has the experience, who has the vision, who has the judgment to be commander in chief. That is the most important decision for the voters to make. That's a standard I'm held to. And it's a standard everyone else is held to.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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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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I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.
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I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.
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Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether it is fairly enforcing the criminal laws against Planned Parenthood.
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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've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.
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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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Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.
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The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.
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