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" I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown. "
Ted Cruz
Government
Mistake
Think
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" I was so horrifically bad at tennis. "
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Tennis
Bad
" I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. "
Ted Cruz
Clear
Decision
Support
" The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. "
Ted Cruz
Congress
President
War
" School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. "
Ted Cruz
Choice
Civil Rights
School
" Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue. "
Ted Cruz
Religious
Bipartisan
Should
" We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. "
Ted Cruz
Legal
American Dream
Welcome
" One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. "
Ted Cruz
Law
Just
Government
" We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs. "
Ted Cruz
People
Way
Routine
" One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs. "
Ted Cruz
Great
Lie
Politics
" Leading from behind doesn't work. "
Ted Cruz
Behind
Work
Leading
" The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream. "
Ted Cruz
Work
Opportunities
Conservative
" Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. "
Ted Cruz
I Am
Confident
Now
" I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. "
Ted Cruz
New Friends
Friends
New
" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "
Ted Cruz
Responsibility
Free
Government
" I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington. "
Ted Cruz
Career
Politicians
Washington
" We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. "
Ted Cruz
Need
Privacy
Government
" If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton. "
Ted Cruz
Look
Modern
President
" Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. "
Ted Cruz
See
Big
Everyone
" Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. "
Ted Cruz
You
School
Body
" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "
Ted Cruz
Mother
Citizen
Birth
" My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. "
Ted Cruz
Question
Constitution
Every
" Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. "
Ted Cruz
Washington
Never
Hungry
" Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session. "
Ted Cruz
Duck
Supreme Court
Us
" On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. "
Ted Cruz
Money
You
Run
" What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans. "
Ted Cruz
Try
Eye
Work
" Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. "
Ted Cruz
Global Warming
Science
Back
" The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. "
Ted Cruz
Liberty
New
Generation
" I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's. "
Ted Cruz
Fan
Bush
" The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming. "
Ted Cruz
Left
Global Warming
Question