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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You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
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A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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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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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.