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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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Ted Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.
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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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I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.
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Harry Reid employed the so-called nuclear option, broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from 60 votes to 51 votes. And it is a direct result of Harry Reid that we now have the most conservative Cabinet in decades.
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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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I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
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Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.
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Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.
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Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington. And I laugh and say, You know this isn't rocket science.
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If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.
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I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.
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It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.
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I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.
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I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.
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We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.
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Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
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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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You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.
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Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.
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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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