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" There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty. "

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" The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost. "

Ted Cruz

Competition

Best

Health

" If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats. "

" 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. "

" I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown. "

" Christians have no greater ally than Israel. "

" I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's. "

Ted Cruz

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Bush

" I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. "

" We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs. "

" I grew up eating Cuban food all the time. "

Ted Cruz

Eating

Cuban

" I am a passionate civil libertarian. "

Ted Cruz

Passionate

Civil

" If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. "

" The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. "

" It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation. "

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

" Cloture is simply cutting off debate. "

" Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. "

" 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. "

" I was bitten by an octopus. "

Ted Cruz

Bitten

Octopus

" When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money. "

Ted Cruz

Too Much

Debt

" After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. "

" I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility. "

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

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy. "

" You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. "

" 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. "

" Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve. "

" I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life. "

Ted Cruz

Thought

Life

" 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. "