Ted Cruz actually said...

"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."

"But tampering with our First Amendment rights is a dangerous business, and that is what this legislation before us aims to do."

"If the IRS targeting scandal has taught us anything, it should be that giving Federal bureaucrats control over the political activity of American citizens is a recipe for disaster."