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| 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 | ||
| 4d5ff95 | By 1981, the seventy-four-year-old Brezhnev, hobbled by a series of strokes and barely able to function, could be seen drooling on himself on his rare appearances on Soviet television. Rather than removing him, however, the Politburo merely nominated him for still more medals. Lenin--the "incandescent" Lenin, as Churchill called him--would have been appalled." | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| 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 | ||
| 509b65f | Today, there is no greater threat to U.S. national security than the prospect of a nuclear Iran. Led by theocratic zealots who have pledged to "annihilate Israel" and who regularly lead chants of "Death to America," an Iran with nuclear weapons poses an unacceptably high risk of murdering millions of Americans or millions of our allies. For" | Ted Cruz | ||
| 0d24082 | The Constitution designs a system of checks and balances for our nation, and executive amnesty for immigrants here illegally unilaterally decreed from the White House would seriously undermine the rule of law. Our founders repeatedly warned about the dangers of unlimited power within the executive branch; Congress should heed those words as the president threatens to grant amnesty to millions of people who have come to our country illegally.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| c5b6ec5 | President Obama's proposed deal makes military conflict with Irana virtual certainty. Under the terms that have been publicly announced, Iran will keep its nuclear centrifuges, will keep its enriched uranium, and will keep developing its ICBM program (which exists for the sole purpose of carrying a nuclear weapon to America). Under the terms of the deal, Iran will receive billions of dollars -- which it will surely use to keep developing nu.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 70a6107 | Getting its target audience to conclude that facts and truth are "unknowable" is the true objective of any disinformation campaign. Climate change deniers aren't trying to convince people that surveys they commissioned are better than those agreed upon by the vast majority of scientists. Antigovernment conspiracy theorists aren't really trying to convince people that some towns in the Midwest are governed under Sharia law, or that Jade Helm.. | James R. Clapper | ||
| 0bc1b03 | First, historically, the ability of the people to defend themselves has been a critical precondition to securing liberty from monarchs and tyrants. For that reason, those in government power always want to disarm the populace, because an unarmed populace is subservient to the whims of their masters. When the British Crown became repressive, the American colonists did not throw off the yoke of tyranny by relying on impassioned speeches, pamp.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| c9d1db6 | Second, the right to keep and bear arms protects the fundamental right of each and every one of us to protect ourselves, our family, and our children from imminent physical harm. If somebody enters my home seeking to injure my wife or my daughters, they will encounter a very direct exercise of my Second Amendment rights. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 26cfa94 | It's very hard for Hollywood celebrities to understand this. They have no need to own a firearm, because typically they retain armed bodyguards who travel with them. Likewise, other liberal elites living in wealthy suburbs have the resources to hire out their self-protection to the local police through higher property values and property taxes. The threat to their lives, to their property, and to their families is minimized. | Ted Cruz | ||
| b2aac54 | But those in poverty don't have that luxury. They are often surrounded by crime, traveling alone late at night, and the Second Amendment is a vital tool to protecting their safety. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 9798339 | Ted Cruz - a soft, smooth Texan with the skin of an avid indoorsman | Ben Fountain | ||
| 9016a90 | From my perspective, if a convicted felon is trying to illegally purchase a firearm, I want to know why. Rather than having the federal government go after law-abiding citizens, we ought to come down on the murderers and rapists trying to illegally buy guns. | Ted Cruz | ||
| b71179e | Fact #2: The prosecution of gun crimes under the Obama administration had dropped [30] percent. Whereas the Bush administration had made going after violent criminals who use guns a top priority, the Obama administration put far less emphasis on doing so. And the data demonstrate the consequences. Fact #3: President Obama reduced the funding for school safety by more than $300 million. That school safety funding might well have gone to prov.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 9781a6d | Each of these facts reflects an ongoing failure of the Obama administration: They have a hard time distinguishing good guys from bad guys. That failure impacts their foreign policy--where we've been ineffective going after terrorists, while at the same time not respecting the privacy rights of American citizens--and it impacts domestic policy, where they've been far more concerned with stripping the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding ci.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| 4bae3c7 | If the Russians were trying to swing the election to Trump, their message was a little confused. They sponsored groups supporting Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jill Stein, Black Lives Matter, Muslims, Christians, and "Heart of Texas," among others. Some were even supportive of Hillary. Again, this is according to Mueller's own indictment. Is he holding the good stuff back?" | Ann Coulter | ||
| 172d375 | But Trump apparently wanted to squeeze some extra juice from the word "lying" and make his branding stand out. So he insisted that Lyin' Ted was the proper spelling, not Lying Ted. This was good branding. It was different from anything you have seen in politics and it gave you a reason to pause and wonder why it mattered if the spelling was "lyin'" or "lying." It did matter, but only because you stopped and wondered about it. That is an eng.. | Scott Adams | ||
| baa0070 | Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. (The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.) | Steven F. Hayward | ||
| 972332b | conscience as her lover. Her husband. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b1b5430 | Here I pause to say I know nothing of Ted Cruz's record of honesty. I have no idea whether he is better or worse than any other politician. I'm focusing on his physical appearance and Trump's persuasion. And on those levels, Lyin' Ted simply looked like a liar. The reality might be very different, but that doesn't matter to our story today. What matters is that the Lyin' Ted nickname stuck like glue. It was fresh political wording, it was p.. | Scott Adams | ||
| c09183f | Just a few months into my tenure in the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on Feinstein's renewed assault weapons ban, which included a hundred-page list of prohibited and permitted firearms. Sitting on the far side of the panel as the committee's second most junior Republican, I noted that the operative language of the Second Amendment--"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"--is the sa.. | Ted Cruz | ||
| a1ed93f | I will confess her reaction puzzled me. Of course she wasn't a sixth grader. No one would ask a sixth grader a substantive question of constitutional law. The | Ted Cruz | ||
| c91f11b | Ted] Cruz railed against his fellow senators for not appreciating the risk that Obamacare would destroy healthcare for America's families ... Cruz then lodged a more general complaint against his Senate colleagues who, he said, seemed more concerned with "cocktail parties in Washington, D.C." than with their constituents. Referring to calls that he said were pouring in from around the country, begging legislators to resist and defund, Cruz .. | gop healthcare republican ted-cruz | Steven Brill | |
| 532db98 | am convinced that, come 2017, a Republican president will sign legislation repealing every word of it. | Ted Cruz |