We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed -… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has opened [ politically correct enforcement] up wide. He`s made a very bold statement and he`s backed it back just a little… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It is my hope that all of the Republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a host of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image