Ted Cruz Professions : United States Senator Born : December 22, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 968 quotes by Ted Cruz We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are. Ted Cruz isis fighting air It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it. Ted Cruz stopping female political The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. Ted Cruz target administration brother The 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. Ted Cruz isis airports iraq One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk. Ted Cruz eight risk people If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it. Ted Cruz wall borders president Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government." Ted Cruz government fighting people I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization. Ted Cruz support I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now. Ted Cruz immigration law people Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border. Ted Cruz bills president law The judgment that every voter is making of every one of us [running for presidency] who has the experience, who has the vision, who has the judgment to be commander in chief. That is the most important decision for the voters to make. That's a standard I'm held to. And it's a standard everyone else is held to. Ted Cruz vision decision running Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism. Ted Cruz parent doe kids One of the things we've seen here is how easy it is for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to get distracted from dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. They won't even call it by its name. Ted Cruz islamic terrorism names We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran. Ted Cruz nuclear-iran isis two Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army. Ted Cruz army air war What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks. Ted Cruz immigration risk country The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration. Ted Cruz terrorist has-beens immigration The message that I am conveying to President Trump, to the Cabinet, to leaders in both Houses is real simple. Let's do what we promised. Let's deliver on the promises and if we do that, we'll win at the ballot box and if we don't, the people will hold us accountable for that too. Ted Cruz real simple winning ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age. Ted Cruz isis age thinking Politically correct enforcement that`s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind. Ted Cruz enforcement mind people Similar Authors Dan Coats united-states-senator Angus King united-states-senator Amy Klobuchar united-states-senator Bob Menendez united-states-senator Bob Corker united-states-senator Bob Casey, Jr. united-states-senator All Authors