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| 4585842 | Later that day, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm a secretary of defense who had a record of undermining our ally Israel, rationalizing the terrorism of Hezbollah and Hamas, expressing openness to allowing Iran to build a nuclear weapon, and affirmatively withholding information about whether he had received funding from foreign governments hostile to the United States. It was not a proud day for the Senate. | Ted Cruz | ||
| af035c1 | The media's personal attacks on me were a sign of things to come. For a long time, the left has had two caricatures of conservatives: that we are either stupid or evil. I take it as a backhanded compliment that they have, to some extent, invented a third category for me: "crazy." Conservatives spend a lot of time complaining about the press, and it's not always productive. Yes, almost all journalists are Democrats. Yes, reporters have a dou.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 5f50cbb | We have enormous problems, grave challenges in this country right now. And no one has a greater desire to change the path we're on, and to fundamentally reform this country, than conservatives who have witnessed the eight-year train wreck that has been the Obama administration. We know the violence those policies have done to American families. It is heartbreaking and very real. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 76c1b35 | For example, when Democrats routinely blocked George W. Bush's nominees, you did not hear members of the mainstream media complaining about Harry Reid contributing to "gridlock" or failing to "get things done." But when a conservative tries to stop disastrous legislation put forward by the left--such as Democratic gun-grab legislation--pundits seem to rush to television cameras to complain that people like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are blocking.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 03590b0 | When the U.S. Senate was first conceived by the Founders, it was meant to be a forum for civilized debate. And for a long time it was, with scholars like Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan among its ranks. These were people of ideas who relished a good give-and-take, the clash of intellects, and the possibility of finding common ground. This is not the modern U.S. Senate, where debate is often confuse.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 34b579f | Because the American public never did--and, I believe, never will--voluntarily choose the scarcity and rationing of socialized medicine, its proponents have always resorted to trickery, telling lies about the legislation they introduce and hiding their agenda for expanding it. For that reason the left doesn't call it "socialized medicine." They prefer the more innocuous, sterile term of a "single-payer system." The "single-payer" is of cour.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 3dd753e | In its perpetual role as the praetorian guard of the Obama presidency, the New York Times has helpfully explained that President Obama simply "misspoke" when the falsehood was revealed. But one does not misspeak twenty-eight times. Nor is it "misspeaking" to deliberately and repeatedly state something that you know to be false." | Ted Cruz | ||
| 704bfed | Jonathan Gruber, the self-described "architect" of Obamacare, later openly admitted that the law never would have passed if President Obama had told the truth about the fact that what was labeled a "penalty" for noncompliance was actually a tax. Gruber explained what the Obama team was cynically counting on: "And, basically, call it 'the stupidity of the American voter,' or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| bc8093f | The final shoe to drop will be the pain inflicted on Americans employed by large companies. Roughly 100 million Americans get their health insurance from large-group employers, and as the costs of Obamacare rise and rise and rise, we will see more and more large-group employers cutting their health insurance and dumping all of their employees into the public exchanges, where they will suffer along with everybody else. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 3b74b74 | Obamacare is not only responsible for costing millions of Americans their health insurance. It has also cost millions their jobs. In an era in which 93 million Americans are not working due in large part to a host of job killers authored by Barack Obama, Obamacare is the biggest job killer of them all. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 1ce973f | Some caricatures suggest that a conservative would be reluctant to represent a convicted murderer. That may be true, if the client is clearly guilty. Although every defendant deserves a lawyer, I've handled too many horrible criminal cases to have any interest in representing violent criminals. But John Thompson was innocent. And critical to supporting the death penalty is ensuring that we vigorously protect the innocent. DNA has enabled ma.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| add249f | We all remember when President Obama told the American people: If you like your health insurance, you can keep it. Now at the time that sounded good. Any of us who liked our health insurance wanted to keep it. We liked that promise. That is the kind of promise we like from our candidates and our officeholders. Yet as I mentioned earlier, one of the great faculties of higher reason is the ability to learn--the ability to learn from evidenc.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| f86fc97 | A few weeks ago UPS sent a letter to 15,000 employees and it said: We are terminating spousal health insurance because of ObamaCare. Their husbands and wives were told: Sorry, your health insurance is gone. Remember, the promise was: If you like your health insurance, you can keep it. For those 15,000 UPS employees--for their husbands and wives--that promise has been disproved by reality. This body would step up and stop ObamaCare if we did.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| cabb94e | Five years ago, when Obamacare was being debated, reasonable minds might have differed about whether it would raise costs, reduce quality, and kill jobs. But today, when we have seen firsthand its devastating impact on people who have lost their insurance and entry-level workers who have lost their jobs, the effect of Obamacare is no longer open to debate. American history is replete with misguided experiments and social engineering, and ye.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 9435645 | I want to ask each of you to imagine, imagine millions of courageous conservatives, all across America, rising up together to say in unison "we demand our liberty." Today, roughly half of born again Christians aren't voting. They're staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values. Today" -- | Ted Cruz | ||
| 71ac699 | One of the simplest principles of geopolitics: When somebody tells you they want to kill you, believe them. And yet Obama and Clinton and Kerry persist in believing that we can reach a reasonable common ground with these Islamic hard-liners. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 505cfe5 | Another deep and abiding passion has been strengthening our friendship with the nation of Israel, an alliance that has been profoundly undermined in the Obama administration. Unfortunately, over the past six years, the Obama administration has demonstrated an unprecedented hostility to the Jewish state, and its actions have weakened not only our alliance but Israel's very security. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 4dca145 | I believe we have no greater friend in the Middle East. Like us, Israel is a nation of immigrants, a country based on ideas, on our shared Judeo-Christian, democratic values. I also believe that from a purely American point of view, supporting Israel is tremendously beneficial to our national security interests. It is also in our economic interests. Since being elected, I have visited Israel three times and have worked hard to repair the da.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 3b78528 | Imagine instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth. Instead of small businesses going out of business in record numbers, imagine small businesses growing and prospering. Imagine young people coming out of school with four, five, six job offers. Imagine innovation thriving on the Internet as government regulators and tax collectors are kept at bay and more and more opportunity is created. Imagine | Ted Cruz | ||
| e79650b | Instead of a federal government that wages an assault on our religious liberty, that goes after Hobby Lobby, that goes after the Little Sisters of the Poor, that goes after Liberty University, imagine a federal government that stands for the First Amendment rights of every American. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a5da79e | Instead of a federal government that works to undermine our values, imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life and to uphold the sacrament of marriage. Instead of a government that works to undermine our Second Amendment rights, that seeks to ban our ammunition, imagine a federal government that protects the right to keep and bear arms of all law-abiding Americans. Instead | Ted Cruz | ||
| 0c0918d | Instead of a government that seizes your e-mails and your cell phones, imagine a federal government that protected the privacy rights of every American. Instead of a federal government that seeks to dictate school curriculum through Common Core imagine repealing every word of Common Core. Imagine embracing school choice as the civil rights issue of the next generation that every single child, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity, reg.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 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 |