Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruzis an American attorney and politician; he was elected in 2012 as the junior United States Senator from Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 December 1970
CityCalgary, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.
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If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.