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Rafael Edward Cruz is an American attorney and politician. He is currently serving as the Junior U.S. Senator for Texas. He was born in Alberta, Canada on December 22nd, 1970. He went to two private high schools, Faith West Academy and Second Baptist High School. He graduated from there in 1988 as a valedictorian.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz went to Princeton University in 1992. He graduated cum Laude with a B.A. degree in public policy. He competed for the American Whig- Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel. He won the award for top speaker in two debate championships in 1992. Mr. Cruz, a Republican, was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year.Â
Sen. Cruz’s senior thesis at Princeton was based on the separation of powers. It was inspired by a passage attributed to James Madison. Cruz argued in his thesis that the drafters of constitutions intended to protect their constituent rights.Â
Sen. Cruz attended Harvard university after graduating from Princeton. He graduated magna cum laude from there in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree. He was a primary editor of the Harvard Law reviews and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He has Democrat friends and Republican friends. Senator Cruz is well known for wearing his stylish ostrich-skin cowboy boots — even when he argued for his state in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as Texas Solicitor General.Â
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Here’s our collection of the best Ted Cruz Quotes:
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Ted Cruz Quotes on Americans/Politics/Trump/Nation/Law
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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We need to remain a nation that doesn’t just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
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Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cell phones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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One of the biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, ‘We want our country back!’ Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters – because the threat to our liberties from Washington has never been greater.
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Ted Cruz Quotes on Hispanic/Obama/Republicans
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, and patriotism.
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When was the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
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Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
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I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
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It’s remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, ‘You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.’ And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama’s amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, ‘No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.’
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, ‘We’re not going to listen to what the U.S. The Supreme Court said. The federal government is going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize them as marriage,’ and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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This election presents a stark choice – we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation – free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation’s ever seen.
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Ted Cruz Quotes on Constitution
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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Ted Cruz Other Quotes
Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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We remain a free market nation.
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