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a1da8aa Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel, instead of a president who seeks to go to the United Nations to end-run Congress and the American people. Imagine a president who says "I will honor the Constitution, and under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon." Imagine a president who says "We will stand up and defeat radi.. Ted Cruz
41e0c44 Why do I look to the example of Reagan so often? Many reasons. One is simply admiration and respect; his leadership transformed the world. But two, the times are very similar. The situation today is very much like the late 1970s. Indeed, the parallels between Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are uncanny. Same failed economic policies, same stagnation and malaise. Same feckless and naive foreign policy; indeed, the very same countries--Russia a.. Ted Cruz
0d61e04 Under the Obama administration, for example, the unemployment rate climbed above 10 percent among Hispanics in 2012 and to 14 percent among African-Americans. Ted Cruz
106c914 Conservatives support lower taxes and a fundamental reform of the tax code so that it is fairer and simpler. But we need to explain why: because when we lower taxes, we give more money to entrepreneurs and business owners to build their businesses and create jobs. Ted Cruz
f98b083 The Obama administration's efforts to forge "a new beginning" with Iran might well mean that one of the most determined enemies of America will possess a nuclear weapon by the end of Obama's term. Here's the grim assessment of Ali Younesi, senior advisor to President Rouhani and formerly Iran's intelligence minister: Obama is the weakest of U.S. presidents; he had humiliating defeats in the region. Under him the Islamic awakening happened. .. Ted Cruz
53000a3 Our world is far more dangerous now than it was when President Obama took office. His Nobel Peace Prize notwithstanding, peace is receding today faster than it has in a generation. President Obama and Secretary Clinton projected weakness, and weakness has proven provocative. Today, Russian president Vladimir Putin is on the march in Ukraine and eyeing the Baltic states. China is making an aggressive effort to exert global power by intimidat.. Ted Cruz
8a65447 History shows a clear cause and effect for jobs and growth. Every time we have pursued out-of-control spending, debt, taxes, and regulation, the result has been economic stagnation and malaise. Conversely, every time we have pursued tax reform and regulatory reform--in the 1920s, in the 1960s, and in the 1980s--the result has been booming economic growth. Ted Cruz
9d4a7ea What are the policies that will bring back growth? Repealing Obamacare. Reining in abusive regulations. Stopping the EPA from strangling the American energy renaissance that can create millions of high-paying jobs, in energy and in heavy manufacturing. Sound money, auditing the Federal Reserve and stopping its endless quantitative easing that is debasing our currency and making daily life more expensive for hardworking Americans. Ted Cruz
e98d5f1 If, after the last recession, the United States had enjoyed the rate of economic growth it has enjoyed in an average recovery, American families would have about $10,000 more income per family than they now do. But because President Obama imposed unprecedented taxes and regulations, the United States is right now missing around a trillion dollars in expected productivity.4 Ted Cruz
af6a621 Abolishing the IRS will also weaken the power of career politicians, and the ability of Washington to frustrate the will of the American people. So too will passing structural reforms, like a constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment, term limits for Congress, and a lifetime ban on former members of Congress ever lobbying. Ted Cruz
6fc4d44 Every year on "Death to America Day"--yes, that's an actual day--the Iranian government celebrates the anniversary of the hostage-taking at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Iran has also functioned as a leading state sponsor of terrorism, overseeing deadly attacks from Beirut to Buenos Aires. And even under severe economic sanctions that crippled the economy, the mullahs have been pursuing both nuclear weapons and the short- and long-range missi.. Ted Cruz
2e3260d Just a week ago the Wall Street Journal had a long article about the ``lost generation,'' about young people coming out of school in the last few years who have not gotten their first job or who have gotten a part-time job. Because of ObamaCare, their employer does not want to hire them for 40 hours a week, so they get hired for 29 hours a week. Think about young people. If they do not get that first job, they are not going to get the sec.. Ted Cruz
09a58e3 One of the reasons people are so unhappy with Washington is they get a sense that there are special rules that apply. Wall Street gets special exemptions, the big banks get special exemptions. Dodd-Frank sets up rules that hammer small banks, hammer community banks, hammer the little guy. But what happens to the big guys? They keep getting bigger. Why? Because they get rules made in Washington that favor the big guy over the little guy. And.. Ted Cruz
f191ecf President Obama is fond of posing a false dichotomy: either you support his current Iran deal, or you want war. But, as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly observed, "a bad deal is worse than no deal." As it stands, Corker-Cardin is a bad deal that paves the way for the President's worse deal with Iran. In" Ted Cruz
779f89a Nearly five decades before there was a tea party movement to oppose Obamacare, there was a coffee party movement. It began in the early 1960s when doctors rallied together to try to save their profession and their patients from a federal takeover of the medical system. Ted Cruz
242ab23 Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation, that imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends met, imagine a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. Imagine abolishing the IRS. Instead of the lawlessness and the president's unconstitutional executive amnesty, imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders. And imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and cel.. Ted Cruz
e172753 It is as the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once observed: Pass it to find out what is in it. That is how Washington does business. Let Ted Cruz
e6ce92b Are millions of Americans out of work? Yes. Are millions of Americans struggling? Yes. Are millions of Americans seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket? Yes. Are millions of Americans at risk of losing their health insurance because of ObamaCare? Yes. But Washington tells our constituents: No, no, never mind. It can't be done. It cannot be done. It is impossible. The rules of Washington say this cannot be done. And we wonder w.. Ted Cruz
6b743a0 All of us remember President Obama looking at the television camera and saying, "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period." This promise provided just enough political cover for Democratic legislators with moderate or conservative constituencies--like Arkansas and Louisiana--to vote for Obamacare. It was a promise that Obama repeated twenty-eight times while looking d.. Ted Cruz
ee219c5 A small business owner from Port Clinton, OH, wrote, on September 19, 2013: I strongly urge you to stand up for the middle class and small business and vote to DEFUND ObamaCare. As a small business owner, we have always offered health insurance. After meeting with our health insurance representative, we learned that the lowest coverage level of ObamaCare offered is estimated to be about $400 a person, twice what we pay now for excellent c.. Ted Cruz
791d44d There are, by the way, I will note, some politicians who suggest that some people in this country are lazy and don't want to work. I don't believe that. I think Americans want to work. Americans want the self-respect that comes from going to the office, from working, from providing for your family, from working to achieve the American dream. Do some people give up? Sure. Can you give in to hopelessness? Yes. When you keep banging your hea.. Ted Cruz
ec7e359 We went around the table one after the other after the other. Over half of the small business owners around that table said to me: Ted, the single biggest obstacle I face in my business is ObamaCare. Hands down, not even close, there is nothing that comes close. It was striking. Of those 20, there were probably 4 or 5 of them who relayed some version of this same story. One was the fellow who owned the restaurant we were meeting in. He sa.. Ted Cruz
2c100f2 DC is using a rigged process to keep ObamaCare funded, to keep this job-killing bill funded. What they want to do fundamentally is ignore the men and women of America and keep up with business as usual. People wonder why Congress has such low approval ratings. I remember when all 100 of us were in the historic Senate Chamber for a bipartisan meeting. Multiple Senators stood and expressed frustration with the low approval ratings that Congre.. Ted Cruz
d832c70 This is the advantage that the Republican Party has over its opposition. The Democrats are the party of government; of dependency. They have no choice in the matter. Their constituencies are big labor union bosses that depend on government largesse and special interest organizations that survive by encouraging a victim mentality among their supporters. Ted Cruz
3db897e Republicans, by contrast, can champion policies of self-sufficiency, responsibility, and economic mobility. We believe our potential should never be limited by our government, but only by our talent and imagination. As Reagan said at his first inauguration, our mission is to make government "work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back . . . provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." E.. Ted Cruz
5d3fb05 Conservatives are against excessive governmental regulations, but rarely explain why. The reason is that these regulations kill jobs and restrict Americans' ability to achieve, earn a living, build a business, and buy a first home. Ted Cruz
f4aec37 Back in 2008, Hillary Clinton was the most formidable primary candidate in modern history who was not an incumbent president. As with Dewhurst, the conventional wisdom was that she was unbeatable. But Obama ran a scrappy, grassroots, guerrilla campaign--phenomenal in the annals of politics--and beat her. He was the David to her Goliath. Ted Cruz
f3392d2 Just days from the second anniversary of Pastor Saeed's incarceration, President Obama gave a major speech to the United Nations General Assembly. He focused on issues such as Ebola, ISIL militants in Iraq and the Russian invasion of Ukraine--all crises worthy of the attention of the American president and the United Nations. But entirely absent from his remarks was the grim threat posed to the United States and our allies by a nuclear-arme.. Ted Cruz
5e398d0 To be clear, the dispute over executive amnesty is not between President Obama and Republicans in Congress; it is a dispute between President Obama and the American people. The Democrats suffered historic losses in the midterm elections largely over the prospect of the president's executive amnesty. President Obama was correct: His policies were on the ballot across the nation in 2014. The elections were a referendum on amnesty, and the vo.. Ted Cruz
0184d48 A monarch, however, does not compromise. As Alexander Hamilton explains in Federalist 69, a monarch decrees, dictates, and rules through fiat power, which is what President Obama is attempting. When the president embraces the tactics of a monarch, it becomes incumbent on Congress to wield the constitutional power it has to stop it. Ted Cruz
51e6204 Congress, representing the voice of the people, should use every tool available to prevent the president from subverting the rule of law. When the president usurps the legislative power and defies the limits of his authority, it becomes all the more imperative for Congress to act. And Congress should use those powers given to it by the Constitution to counter a lawless executive branch--or it will lose its authority. If Ted Cruz
3bee061 Labor unions have more and more been expressing their dismay about ObamaCare as they have realized in practice the thing isn't working. Recently the labor unions came to the Obama administration and said, We want an exemption too. Big businesses got an exemption, Members of Congress got an exemption. Shouldn't labor unions, shouldn't union bosses get an exemption? And with much fanfare the administration reportedly told them, No. I am goi.. Ted Cruz
b200316 If we focus on the substance, the evidence is overwhelming. This law is a train wreck. Every day the headlines come in: more jobs lost, more people losing their health insurance, more premiums going up, more people pushed into part-time work. Yet every day the Senate goes about its business and says: We are too busy to listen to the American people. There Ted Cruz
607709c What are we left with then? We are left with a system where ObamaCare is a rule for, as Leona Helmsley so famously described them, the little people. For everybody who doesn't have power and juice and connections in Washington, for everyone--look for the men and women at home, maybe you have an army of lobbyists working for you. Maybe you have Senators' cell phones on your speed dial. Maybe you can walk the corridors of power. In that case .. Ted Cruz
c7d3670 I wish to talk about the harm to jobs and economic growth that is coming from ObamaCare. Americans continue to suffer from high unemployment and severe underemployment. Instead of helping job growth, ObamaCare's mandates and costs are causing businesses to stop hiring workers, to cut employees' hours, and they are increasing the costs to operate businesses. Small businesses in particular are being hammered by ObamaCare. Here Ted Cruz
9f58176 As a young kid, one of the things you have to learn is basic work skills, such as how to show up on time. A lot of teenagers are not very good at showing up on time. They don't understand how to show up on time. Even some U.S. Senators have not figured that out. Yet, if a young American doesn't get a job or learn to work with his coworkers, customers, their boss, how to show up on time, to be courteous, respectful, diligent, and responsible.. Ted Cruz
4409193 To the men and women at home today who are out of a job, I point out to you that if it were not for ObamaCare, every small business that has an opportunity to expand right now and is not expanding because of ObamaCare--that is a job you are not able to get. Do Ted Cruz
55f0a33 Do you want to know why the job economy is so bad, why there are so few jobs, why we have the lowest workforce participation in decades in the United States? Small businesses generate two-thirds of all new jobs in the economy, and small businesses have been hammered under ObamaCare unlike ever before. If Ted Cruz
6b1014c The most fundamental problem, bigger than ObamaCare, is the problem that Washington has stopped listening to the American people. It Ted Cruz
c250ee7 In January 2017, we will have a new President. He or she will likely encounter an Iran on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. If President Obama has implemented his bad deal--if he has unraveled the international consensus in favor of strict sanctions on Iran--then sanctions will in all likelihood be impossible to re-impose. Doing so would take months or years (if at all), probably too far out to prevent a nuclear Iran. Thus, Ted Cruz
a4d15bb Thus, the next president would be left with two choices: acquiesce to Iranhaving nuclear weapons (which it could then use to murder Americans and our allies), or launch a targeted military attack to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity. The Ted Cruz
fb0fe50 On Sept. 26, 2012, an American pastor named Saeed Abedini who was visiting family and fellow Christians in Tehran was dragged out of the private home he was staying in and hauled away to jail by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Friday marked the second anniversary of his imprisonment, and for the last two years he has been beaten, abused and subjected to solitary confinement for weeks on end in Iran's most notoriously dangerous prisons for the.. Ted Cruz
3492bb6 Last November, for example, on the 34th anniversary of the day Americans were taken hostage in Iran--known as "Death to America Day" in Iran--Pastor Saeed was moved to the incredibly brutal Raja Shahr prison. It was a deliberate act of defiance to the United States. Nonetheless," Ted Cruz
5948677 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ignored Saeed's case during the first months of his imprisonment, and neither President Obama nor current Secretary of State John Kerry has made his release or that of his fellow Americans a pre-condition for negotiations. Just Ted Cruz
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