It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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.
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.
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.
I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
