Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?
Ted CruzThe Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.
Ted CruzI've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.
Ted CruzMarco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.
Ted CruzSocial justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.
Ted CruzThe specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.
Ted Cruz