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I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.
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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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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
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Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?
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Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
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The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
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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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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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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.
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By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.
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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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On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.
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Obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had.
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I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.
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I don`t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you`re a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.
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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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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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The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.
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