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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. (Ted Cruz)
If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it? View quote
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I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. View quote
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it. View quote
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If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy. View quote
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is 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 have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. View quote
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women. View quote
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What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance. (Ted Cruz)
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. View quote
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do. View quote
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor. View quote
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. View quote
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. View quote
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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. (Ted Cruz)
I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America. View quote
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. View quote
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back. View quote
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. View quote
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