It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.
TED CRUZThe last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.
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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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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
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Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is…zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.
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There is a better vision for our future: A return to freedom.
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The path we’re on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.
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We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they’re searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It’s like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.
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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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We`re saying the Washington establishment run behind Donald Trump.
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I don’t think we should be engaged in nation-building. It’s not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military’s job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.
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In the 13 months I’ve been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they’re forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.
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We need the private sector’s help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.
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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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In the history of humanity, there’s never been a country like America.
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I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.
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I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.
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If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.
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I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.
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If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump`s your guy.
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Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.
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But you know what? There’s far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.
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Far too many young people are living in their parents’ basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
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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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Theirs is the party that … responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?
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One of the problems with Marco’s [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If – and the if is critical – they’re willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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