It shouldn’t be complicated that members of the campaign staff should not be physically assaulting the press. Ted Cruz More Quotes by Ted Cruz More Quotes From 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 isisfightingair 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 stoppingfemalepolitical The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. Ted Cruz targetadministrationbrother 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 isisairportsiraq 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 eightriskpeople 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 wallborderspresident 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 governmentfightingpeople 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 immigrationlawpeople 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 billspresidentlaw 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 visiondecisionrunning 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 parentdoekids 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 islamicterrorismnames 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-iranisistwo 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 armyairwar 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 immigrationriskcountry The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration. Ted Cruz terroristhas-beensimmigration 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 realsimplewinning 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 isisagethinking 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 enforcementmindpeople