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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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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.
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Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.
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There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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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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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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In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.
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You don't have to solve every problem at once.
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Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.
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Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border.
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We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.
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We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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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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One of the things that I have encouraged President Trump to do, and I'm optimistic about this, is to take on directly the regulatory state to take it on, to fire bureaucrats.
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ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.
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We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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