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.
TED CRUZThe front line with ISIS isn’t just in Iraq and Syria, it’s in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.
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The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen, and I don’t think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.
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A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.
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We are the change we’re waiting for.
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One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.
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In the Second Amendment, it’s not about hunting, it’s not about target shooting, it’s about protecting your home and your family and your life.
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I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I’ll commend them for truth in advertising.
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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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We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.
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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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The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I’ve said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between career politicians in both parties and the American people.
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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.
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This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That’s not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.
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