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What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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Rafael Edward Cruz
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If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.
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The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.
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There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen.
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If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.
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Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.
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Always be sexy. I salute that message.
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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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When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.
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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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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'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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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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I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.
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The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination.
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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 court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called the Washington cartel. It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said, he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government.
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