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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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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
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If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up to service, they said bring your musket. And indeed, the First Congress passed a law. You want to know the first gun control law in America? First Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket.
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If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?
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We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.
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What many of the Senate Democrats are taking as the lesson of this election was that Hillary Clinton is too moderate and they need to go more Elizabeth Warren, more Bernie Sanders, more extreme and on the fringes.
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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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A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.
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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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The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.
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Political correctness is bad.
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We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.
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I'm an optimist at heart.
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We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.
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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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When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.
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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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You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.
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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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It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.
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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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