Ted Cruz actually said...

If you choose to run for public office, there are 300 million Americans who have a right to criticize you all day long and twice on Sundays.

The First Amendment does not allow us to silence those who oppose us.

Campaign finance reform is all about lower the limits, lower the limits, restrict the speech, restrict the speech.

I opposed that legislation, along with most of my Republican colleagues, because we feared it would make our system worse, not better.