You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they’re really clean as they’re robbing your house.
TED CRUZThe Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty. But also in ensuring that decision-making is made by those who the people can hold accountable.
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Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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There is a better vision for our future: A return to freedom.
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Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
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I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they’re looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.
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A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.
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I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.
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We don’t have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don’t do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.
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I’m a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you’re a terrible surgeon.
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While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.
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Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.
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It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.
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The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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It’s not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters “punch that guy in the face.” I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don’t think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.
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