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" It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds. "

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" The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. "

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" The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. "

" 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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" Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard. "

" I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn. "

" An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect. "

" Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do. "

" We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally. "

" The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. "

" A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it. "

" When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes. "

" How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility. "

" Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. "

" President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns. "

" Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. "

" It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan. "

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" We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'. "

" When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor. "

" The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights. "

" We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator. "

" When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin. "

" I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers. "

" I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country. "

" I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music. "

Ted Cruz

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" The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.' "

" What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. "

Ted Cruz

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" Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says. "

" I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America. "

Ted Cruz

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" Stopping bad things is a significant public service. "

" I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care. "