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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.' "

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" It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans. "

Ted Cruz

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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. "

" I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics. "

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

" We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage. "

" By any measure, NBC is a corporation. "

" It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. "

Ted Cruz

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" Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative. "

Ted Cruz

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" What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance. "

" If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy. "

" Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue. "

" I do not believe we should shut down the federal government. "

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

" It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. "

" Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. "

" Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? "

" My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job. "

" If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare. "

" I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. "

" 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. "

" I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington. "

" Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. "

" If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative. "

" My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. "

Ted Cruz

Immigrants

Generation

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

" And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do. "

" Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background. "