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
Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.
law obamacare people
Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.
gun texas machines
In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.
thinking epic government
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.
running
If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.
constitution touchstones
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
jobs thinking government
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.
government long size
I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
senior good-friend decision
A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."
people president together
President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
gun president crime
Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.
strong character thinking
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.
country party roots
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.
thinking conservative
I don’t think I’m all that conservative.