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
the-end-of-the-day establishment ends
At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go.
real views want
If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.
support
I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization.
country want scrutiny
I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.
commitment texas government
It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment.
islamic isis faces
ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be.
purple hearing rebel
We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.
dog islamic fighting
I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel doesn't have a dog in that fight because Assad is a puppet of Iran, a Shia radical Islamic terrorist, but at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't want to see Syria governed by ISIS.
wall president pay
If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.
eight people risk
One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.
isis iraq airports
The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.
fighting government people
Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."
immigration terrorist has-beens
The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.
country risk immigration
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.