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
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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.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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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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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.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
spent terrific
I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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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.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.