When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

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.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.